Ian Levesque wrote: > Greetings, > > I installed version 1.38.5 this week and am thus far impressed!
Good to hear! > With some tweaking, I have it interfacing w/ an ADIC Scalar 100 (50 > slots) housing one LTO-1 and one LTO-2 drive. Awesome. I run a Scalar 220 with AIT2 tapes, but LTO can't be too different. > > I have a few initial questions regarding this solution, and would > appreciate any advice: > > 1. How should I manage the mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes in the > ADIC with bacula? I set up two pools, one for each media type. I run > the "label barcodes" command to use the ADIC's barcode scanner to add > the tapes to the database, but this puts all the tapes in one pool. > Is the solution to then manually move the LTO-2 tapes to their > respective pool? If so, what's the best method in bacula? > Using different pools should be based on the purpose of the pool rather than the type of media in it. However, you might still want to keep them seperated for other reason; its up to you. For example, pools could be separated so that you have a pool for full backups and a pool for incremental/differential backups, that way the incremental/differential tapes can be recycled when the next full backup occurs, or whenever the incremental/differential pool gets low on tapes. Though, if you wanted to keep them in separate pools anyway (for any reason), I would suggest loading only the LTO-1 tapes, running 'label barcodes' to add them to a pool, then swap all of them out with your LTO-2 tape and re-running 'label barcodes' to add them to a different pool. This would probably be the most efficient method, rather than having to add them by hand. > 2. I would like to use the LTO-2 drive to write to LTO-1 tapes as > well, since the LTO-2 tapes are only used once a month. Is is > possible to set up a device to handle more than one media type? A device is only tied to a particular type of media through a job. For example, a job specifies which pool of tapes is used for a backup. Only media from that pool will be used, regardless of their 'type'. Bacula has no concern for the physical 'type' of media, so long as it works in the drive. :) > > 3. I also have been reading about running simultaneous jobs (in the > same pool) on separate drives, which apparently isn't supported yet > -- any word on when this will be available? > Sorry, I'm no help here. Others might know though. > Thanks! > Ian > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Best Regards, Ryan Sizemore ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
