On Friday 02 February 2007 12:21, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > After reloading it, the tape was positioned at the beginning, where > > Bacula requires its tape label. > > > > Bacula knw it could append, so it simply started writing - it did not > > position the tape to the correct position. > > I remember asking over a year ago if there was any way of Bacula checking > its position on the tape before starting to write. > > Is that actually possible without rewinding?
Yes, this is possible with most OSes. Some do not support checking the position, but they are what I consider second class OSes (as far as tape drive handling goes), and Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris are not in that category (I'm not sure about Win32). The problem with all these things is that it takes programming. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
