Michael Nelson wrote: > I have a Quantum Superloader3 LTO-3 jukebox with one magazine (eight > slots) and one drive. I have been backing our servers up to it > successfully, after much tweaking. > > My problem is that I don't really want it to continue backing up to one > tape until it's full. I am backing up about 100GB / night, and native > capacity of an LTO-3 tape is 400GB, up to 800GB with compression. I am > not comfortable having that many days worth of data on one tape and would > like to be able to tell bacula to switch to the next tape. > > I believe I have found a way to do it manually, by using "update volume" > in bconsole and changing that media_id's value from "append" to "full", > but I would rather this happen some way without my having to do that every > day. > > If the answer to this is in the docs, I have missed it. Is there an > easier way to handle this issue programmagically?
Check out the Volume Use Duration option under: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0001410000000000000000 Something like 'Volume Use Duration = 24h' should work if added to your Pools definition. > > Thanks > Michael > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
