Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-03 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> What's needed is the ability to define multiple mediatypes per tape drive. > > Unfortunately it is a lot more complicated than that, but 1.39 gets half way > there. That's good to hear. I'm sure it get very complicated very quickly, but having achieved

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 03 August 2006 15:14, Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> I have a situation where we are about to add LTO3 drives to our changer, > >> which currently has LTO2 drives and media onboard. > >> > >> For obvious reasons I want to be able to use the LTO2 tape

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-03 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> I have a situation where we are about to add LTO3 drives to our changer, >> which currently has LTO2 drives and media onboard. >> >> For obvious reasons I want to be able to use the LTO2 tapes in the LTO3 >> drives, but I also have to prevent any attempts

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:51, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Alan Brown wrote: > > > > Well, there is NO such thing as an LTO-4 drive. > > Yet > > It's in the LTO development roadmap. > > > They are both LTO-3 drives. > > I

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-03 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Alan Brown wrote: > > Well, there is NO such thing as an LTO-4 drive. Yet It's in the LTO development roadmap. > They are both LTO-3 drives. > I'm not sure that media type declaration does anything specific for a "real"

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-02 Thread Dirk Kleinhesselink
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Alan Brown wrote: Well, there is NO such thing as an LTO-4 drive. They are both LTO-3 drives. I'm not sure that media type declaration does anything specific for a "real" media type, at least not in this case. I'm guessing it's just used as a name or label. Dirk > On We

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > This solution solved the problem, thanks very much: I defined the > media type for the tape drive in one of the autoloaders to be LTO-4, > leaving the other one as LTO-3 and now I can restore from backup

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-08-02 Thread Dirk Kleinhesselink
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: This solution solved the problem, thanks very much: I defined the media type for the tape drive in one of the autoloaders to be LTO-4, leaving the other one as LTO-3 and now I can restore from backups made to either autoloader. Thanks again, Dirk > Hel

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Friday 28 July 2006 22:56, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > I'm new to bacula and am setting bacula up for backing up a large > raidserver. I have 2 7-slot (single drive) Exabyte Magnum LTO-3 > autoloaders connected to the server. I've gone through the basic setup > and tested the tapes

[Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-07-28 Thread Dirk Kleinhesselink
I'm new to bacula and am setting bacula up for backing up a large raidserver. I have 2 7-slot (single drive) Exabyte Magnum LTO-3 autoloaders connected to the server. I've gone through the basic setup and tested the tapes and autoloaders for general functionality and everything seems good. I