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> In the message dated: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:12:48 BST, > The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on > <Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in > s > ame changer> were: > > => > => On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Pietari Hyv=E4rinen wrote: > => Bacula has no way of knowing that you can use LTO2 tapes in the LTO3=20 > => drives. I've been requseting that functionality for a while, as we have=20 > => always planned to install LTO3/LTO4 drives in our robot when hardware=20 > => upgrade time happens. > > Thank you very much for bringing this up and giving an explanation. > > We're about to be getting an LTO3 drive, and I was planning to continue to > use > our stock of LTO2 tapes for incrementals, and add some LTO3 media for full > backups. This limitation of bacula may cause serious changes to that plan. I currently do this with two different tape drives that are NOT in an autochanger by having the different types of media in different pools and using certain pools with only certain drives. Certainly not as easy as a solution that understood backward compatability, but it does work. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFEvfVmb+gadEcsb4RAlC2AKC8C/QBXV3KBplJ8CSGXs0N5xjoXgCgjZ8K iE6zMMA0X+P7bIsv6S+/HOc= =c8bn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
