Rick Sterling wrote: > How can I configure Bacula to just use whatever tape is in the drive and > overwrite it when a job is scheduled to occur? I want to have it this way so > if someone forgets to change the tape I will still have a backup. > > Thanks.
Why do people keep asking this question? a. It's been answered on the list a number of times, and can be found in the archives. b. Personally, I think it is a *really* bad idea. OK, so you get your backup for this run. But, what if the run just before was the one that you had intended to take off site for an archive? Or was some critical tape that had been put in to recover a file from. Or any number of reasons it might matter. If you have human error (someone forgets to change a tape), and the wrong tape is there when backups are to be run, then the backup software ought not to just shrug and blindly overwrite it. If there are consequences, it should be that the backup fails to run, and the person who failed to change the tape gets told what happened and why (or their manager gets told). Of course, if backups are unimportant, then . . . Note: This is personal opinion. Others may differ. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
