Am 02.03.2012 03:02, schrieb mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu: > => I have replaced the previous LTO-1 drive by an LTO-2 one. > => [...] When I mounted the current backup tape in the new > => drive, Bacula [...] refused to use it. The only difference was that > => it had media type "LTO-1" and Bacula requested "LTO-2". > > Did you make any change to the bacula configuration, specifically the "Media > Type" definition in bacula-sd.conf?
Indeed, I commented out the device section "LTO-1" in bacula-sd.conf and uncommented the "LTO-2" section instead, effectively changing both Name and Media Type from "LTO-1" to "LTO-2", and adapted bacula-dir.conf accordingly. I guess that was my mistake. > => - If I connect two LTO drives of different levels to the > => same Bacula server, is there a way to use the same tape > => alternatingly in both drives as supported by the > => hardware? (*without* losing the data on it, that is) > > Yes. > > Don't change the "Media Type" string in bacula-sd.conf. > > In our environment, we've migrated from LTO-2 => LTO-3 => LTO-4. The > current library can read LTO-2 tapes, and can write to LTO-3 (as per the > LTO standard). Our bacula-sd.conf definition for "Media Type" still has > "LTO-2", and that's written to all the tapes, including the LTO-3 and > LTO-4 tapes, when they are labeled. Makes sense. In that case, wouldn't it be better if the default bacula-sd.conf distributed with Bacula would just say "Media Type = LTO" for all the LTO devices? That would reduce the temptation to change that field when changing drives. Another question: Is there a way to fix the mix-up I've created? "update volume" doesn't let me change the media type. Can I just run the MySQL query update Media set MediaType = 'LTO-2' where MediaType = 'LTO-1' or is there more to it? Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
