Hi, I was going to post similar question when I saw this thread so I'd rather join...
I just got my new AIT-5 drive delivered, together with a bunch of AIT-5 tapes. I have an autochanger with single AIT-3 drive installed and 4 vacant drive slots, so I am planning on installing AIT-5 alongside with AIT-3. What is the safe way to ensure old AIT-3 drive never tries to load AIT-5 tape? Would it be enough to configure a separate pool for new tapes? I would appreciate if anyone with a similar configuration (i.e. different drives in the same changer operated from a single SD) could share examples of working config files. Thanks, Ivan On Monday 08 October 2007 05:42:07 pm Eric Böse-Wolf wrote: > "John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Media types are arbitrary. Two devices with the same media type, it is > >> assumed, can share volumes. If they can't, the media type needs to be > >> different. If not, they can be the same. > > > > Exactly. I have two DLT drives on different bacula-sds on different > > servers and they share the "DLT-IV" media type while my LTO2 > > autochanger has the "LTO-2" media type. This way I can backup my DLT > > tapes on one server/sd and restore it on the other server/sd and also > > bacula will not try to share volumes from my LTO2 drives to my DLT > > since they are different... > > So it's actually not bacula choosing one of the sd's (because the > restore job is tied to storage, which is tied to a device) but it's me > writing a new restore job or doing a mod? > > So what is media type good for? Nobody would try to get a DDS-4 tape > into a LTO2 slot? > > Yours sincerely, > > Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
