On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, David Romerstein wrote: > >> Yesterday was my first opportunity to get to the colo facility in which >> these >> devices sit, and I tried another tape swap - first, unmounted the tape in >> the >> drive, ejected it, inserted a new tape, labelled it 'xRaid1_3' (following >> the >> naming convention I'd established for the first two tapes, 'xRaid1' and >> 'xRaid1_2'), and mounted it. >> >> There's been no activity since then, no data has been written to the new >> tape. > > Did you add the new tape to the "Default" pool? > > 'list media pool' will tell you if you have or not.
I didn't, specifically, but it was added automatically (apologies in advance for the horrible, broken width-ness of the following): *list media pool Automatically selected Pool: Default +---------+---------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +---------+---------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 1 | TestVolume001 | Append | 1 | 44,430,673,369 | 10 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | File | 2007-01-16 23:58:33 | | 2 | xRaid1 | Full | 1 | 425,758,104,576 | 427 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2007-01-11 00:37:49 | | 3 | xRaid1_2 | Full | 1 | 425,739,202,560 | 426 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2007-01-14 01:32:16 | | 4 | xraid1_3 | Append | 1 | 64,512 | 0 | 31,536,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-3 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | +---------+---------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ It's in the pool, enabled... but not written to. -- D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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