OK, not "recycled" but "reused after recycling"; sorry, I didn't express myself correctly. And, of course, it should be optional; I meant mostly *-to-disk scenarios.
Any idea how this can be managed "by bconsole scripting" as someone had suggested? Alex Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > >>> Can a (disk) volume be automatically relabelled when it is recycled? >>> >>> >> I don't think that's supported atm.. >> >> I'd like to have that feature too. It shouldn't be too hard to implement.. >> > > A recycled volume is still only a candidate for being written on. Volumes > are labelled when they're moved from recycle to append. > > The decision to not relabel tapes until the last possible moment is > deliberate. > > This gives a last-possible-moment for recovering data off a tape which > have been wiped from the database, using the various bacula command line > utilities. > > It also reduces excessive tape handling. Bear in mind that media like LTO > has a chip onboard and counts each load/unload cycle towards the end of > the tape's lifetime (162 cycles(*)) even if only the very beginning of the > tape has been read/written. > > (Yes, this means the "lifetime warranty" on LTO media has different > real-world durations depending on the purposes the tapes are put to. > Other media has similar limitations) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
