Hello,
For a number of your questions, the list, being more experienced with
autochangers will probably provide you with better answers, but there are a
few points to which I want to respond ...
On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:20, William Reid wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We just started using Bacula 1.38.5 with an 11 tape LTO changer, after a
> few days of playing around we finally have it working to our likes,
> however there are a few things I couldn't make heads or tails of..
>
> Pool/Media Management -
>
> We have a barcode reader in out changer unit, when we load 11 fresh
> tapes into the changer and do a label barcodes from bconsole it loads
> all the cartridges and can see the labels we printed off, does this mean
> in future if we decide to add new tapes to our pool that we don't have
> to worry about adding tapes to the catalog? Or will bacula automatically
> do that if it can see the labels?
For Bacula to label tapes from barcodes, you must explicitly use the label
barcodes command.
>
> Below we decided on 3 pools, the idea was that we would not tie any tape
> to any existing pool and that if a tape was needed we would pull this
> from the scratch pool.
This will be part of the next 1.38.6 beta release that I will do this
weekend ...
>
> The thing I'm not sure of is when a tape if pulled, say for an
> incremental job, it is then assigned to the incremental pool, but when
> the volume retention expires, does this volume get recycled back into
> the scratch pool or does it stay within the incremental pool?
This will need to wait for the next release -- hopefully I will get it into
1.40.x
>
> Pool {
> Name = Incremental
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically
> recycle Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 30 # 5 jobs/day x 6 days
> Volume Retention = 75 days # 12 Days the DB will hold
> Job/File Records
> Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
> Volume Use Duration = 75 days # Allow Volume 6 days of use
> }
>
> Pool {
> Name = Full
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically
> recycle Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 # 1 Full Backup/tape, per week
> Volume Retention = 75 days # Hold for 30 days
> Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
> Volume Use Duration = 75 days
> }
>
> Pool {
> Name = Scratch
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically
> recycle Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
> }
>
>
>
> My next and last question... Is there any way customizing the output
> format of the job totals, for example JobBytes shows totals in kbytes,
> this would look a little more friendly if we could change this to
> display in megabytes
>
Thanks to a user code submission, this is in the current development code.
Possibly I will back port it to 1.38.6 -- we will see ...
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