On Wednesday 05 April 2006 16:50, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 5 Apr 2006 at 10:36, John Kodis wrote:
> > There's a brief review of Bacula at:
> >
> > http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula
> >
> > It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as
> > being "far from intuitive".
>
> Any publicity is good publicity. :)
>
> Tape changing is NOT difficult. I believe the author does not fully
> comprehend the volume status. I do see that he posted messages to
> the users list, so he has been using Bacula for a while. Getting
> used to automatically recycling volumes is not a simple topic.
>
> Here are his posts to the list: http://tinyurl.com/lz4u3
I think it was a good article. Here is a copy of the little email note I sent
him a few hours ago:
====
Hello,
Thanks for your Bacula review in OS Reviews. It is a nice article.
I'm not complaining, but do have two comments:
1. I agree that it isn't always easy to know what tape Bacula will want next,
but there are some ways:
a. Doing a "status dir" will generally show what tape will be used next.
b. Bacula always accepts the current tape in the drive if it is in "Append"
mode, otherwise, it will choose the least recently written tape that can
be overwritten.
This can seem complicated but it ensures that your data remains on tape
as long as possible before the tape is overwritten. When you think about
it a bit, it is quite logical and is generally the "correct" thing to do for
maximal data preservation.
2. In addition to email, you can also get "mount" messages in the
console program, or in the tray monitor.
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