Hi,

On 9/21/2006 2:24 AM, 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",

You'd better use "Used" for that, but usually that doesn't matter.

> 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?

Sure. Look at the pool setup and consider the Volume Use Duration. Also 
possible: Maximum Volume Jobs, ... Bytes, ... Files, but these are 
usually not the best options to use.

Arno

> Thanks
> Michael
> 
> 
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