On Thursday 12 January 2006 15:04, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Christoph Jahn wrote:
> > Hi, dear fellow bacula users,
> >
> > I wondered if its possible to enable bacula to simply create the
> > backup on the tape which is inserted in the streamer?
> >
> > I have 6 tapes here and i'm not able to change them every day.
> > The tapes are registered in bacula tape library.
> >
> > Could to tell me how to realize this scenario? When it's backup
> > time, bacula should simply take the tape which is inserted and replace
> > the old one on the tape.
>
> Use Any Volume = yes
By the way, recently (1.38.x or perhaps even in 1.36.x) I made this the
default (and only) behavior. I.e. Bacula will always check if the current
tape in the drive is "appendable", the right Media Type, and Pool, and if so,
it will go ahead and use it.
>
>
> That should be all you need. Provided you haven't set a media use
> duration or per-tape job limit, Bacula will -- by default -- continue to
> append jobs to a tape until it is full. The directive above tells it to
> use any appendable volume that happens to be mounted instead of strictly
> waiting for the one it thinks should be used next.
>
> Note, however, that this will NOT cause Bacula to recycle and re-use a
> tape it has just filled.
^^^^^^^^ This is *very* important ...
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