----- Original Message ----
From: John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Dick <jcdi...@yahoo.com>; bacula-users
<Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:34:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape handling with an autoloader
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Christopher Dick <jcdi...@yahoo.com> 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?
>
No. Bacula does not have any commands for this. Just do the tape
manipulations yourself and then use update volumes and probably label
barcodes
John
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Thanks for the quick response!
Just to ease my discomfort, how will Bacula deal with a need to restore
from a volume that is no longer in the library in the event of a need
to restore? Will it just prompt for the volume and wait until I have
inserted it and moved it to an available slot? Does it get confused about that
sort of thing?
Thanks!
Chris
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