Thanks John, I hate when I think of all the details to provide in the email but forget to type them out.
Yes, it's a Dell PV-124T changer with a single LTO4 drive (also single magazine, which with a 2nd mag, this wouldn't be an issue). I tried the auto-label during some testing and the I couldn't get to produce the same label format that manually labeling produces via "label barcodes". Mike -----Original Message----- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 3:05 PM To: Mike Hanby Cc: bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Swapping tapes mid job with an autochanger > If I have a multi LTO4 tape backup running that will require swapping tapes > (i.e. it will use all of the tapes in the autochanger and require a few > more), is there any way during the job for the operator to tell Bacula to > pause once it finishes filling the current tape? > > The idea, I know I'm going to need to swap out / in two more tapes AND I know > that the existing tapes won't fill up until 3 AM, why not let it finish > writing the first 2 tapes, pause it, swap the first 2 tapes with new tapes, > label them, mount the 3rd tape and let the job resume. The alternative, the > backup will be idle from 3 AM until the next work day waiting for the > operator to perform the swap. > I assume you have only 1 LTO4 drive otherwise this would not be a problem. I swap magazines all the time with jobs running on 1 drive and use label barcodes on the open drive. No you can not pause the backup and I do not think you can run label barcodes when bacula is asking for a tape. There is a way to label new tapes automatically without running label barcodes. I have never used that however. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
