On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:23:31AM -0800, Christopher Dick wrote: > I have an LTO-2 library with 20 slots and have a question about tape handling > in Bacula. I have been running backups for about two weeks now, and I've > about filled my tapes. I have two free slots yet, and then I am going to > have to "check out" tapes and refill the library. The first fulls were quite > large and got minimal compression. > > In my library, the 20th slot is the mail slot, for checking in and out tapes. > My question is, does Bacula have a facility for doing this? I put a new > tape in the mail slot, but I couldn't find any bat or bconsole command to > tell bacula to take that tape and label it according to the barcode and then > move it to an available slot. I had to use command line mtx to actually do a > full re-inventory of the library and move the tape myself so that Bacula > could say "oh, hey, that tape in that slot isn't in my db." At that point, I > could issue a "label barcodes". > > So, in short, does bacula have an internal facility for checking in and out > tapes from the library and I am just missing it? > > Thanks! > > Chris
i do this manually. in bconsole, i umount the drives, then at the library i export the tapes i want to remove and import new or recycled tapes. then in bconsole, i run update slots and label any new tapes if needed. -- michael > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
