Just to close this thread out, I was able to erase the labels on the tapes and have been successfully labeling tapes. Next stop, backups!
Thanks All! Andrew On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Bill Arlofski <waa-bac...@revpol.com> wrote: > On 06/19/2015 03:58 PM, Andrew Noonan wrote: >> Hi Bill, >> >> Yeah, I did that a few posts back. > > heh, no idea how I missed that. I'll chalk it up to a very busy week! > > >> Unfortunately, there isn't a >> keen mapping that specifically connects the SCSI devices to the >> internal drive numbering that the changer uses, so commands against >> the changer (mtx) would use the drive number, but commands against the >> drive (mt) would use the devices. Once Ana saw that my "drive 1" was >> showing ONLINE when a tape was loaded and not my drive 0, she >> connected the dots and had me swap the devices. > > Glad to see it is working correctly now. > > Ana has been very busy in here lately! Thank you Ana! :) > >> Rest assured that the >> actual device names I swapped are the /dev/tape/by-id names, as I >> agree with you that they're a much better way to handle things. > > Yes, I think this is the only way to go when there are more than one SCSI tape > and/or changer. Actually, these days I use the by-id node even when there is > one drive. I think it is a good habit. > > > Bill > > > -- > Bill Arlofski > http://www.revpol.com/bacula > -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
