-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
when Bacula (console) asks to specify a volume, it does so by requiring the user to enter the label or the ID of the volume. This causes problems if your tapes are labeled with numbers only, since from the user's point of view it's ambiguous if it will interpret the entered value as an ID or as a label. This actually happened when we wanted to purge one of our volumes (irrelevant output truncated): > *purge jobs volume > Defined Pools: > 7: bacula-super-full-tape-Pool > Select the Pool (1-9): 7 > +---------+------------+-----------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | ... > +---------+------------+-----------+ > | 48 | 000040 | Full | > | 49 | 000041 | Append | > +---------+------------+-----------+ > Enter MediaId or Volume name: 000041 > 1 File on Volume "000008" purged from catalog. > There are no more Jobs associated with Volume "000008". Marking it purged. We wanted to purge the volume with label "000041" (MediaId 49), and the volume with label "000008" (MediaId 41) got purged. There are two surprising things in this story: First, looking back, it's unclear if Bacula interprets the input as a MediaId or a Label. A solution could be not using labels of numbers only, however, this should be mentioned in the documentation (I couldn't find it). A cleaner solution would be dropping the ambiguous question and asking just the Label or just the MediaId, not in an "as it gets" manner. Second, in the above example, Bacula purged a tape that was not part of the selected pool. I understand why this happened (the list of volumes is just informational), but as a naive user, I found it strange for the first time. IMHO this should be checked before purging the tape. - -- cc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmoLXkACgkQGJRwVVqzMkO79wCglCyNTD/kYGW0APLhspC+Wy+W xR4Ani6oMJFtP4oXdUSBL1L952eXeL8h =mPOL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
