Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

2025-07-29 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 7/28/25 2:38 PM, Todd Aiken wrote: Bacula Director and FD can talk to an SD running on a different distribution. The thing is that you must be sure that the SD version is exactly equal to the DIR version. Sigh... I feel like such an idiot. I incorrectly assumed that installing Bacula in U

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

2025-07-28 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 7/25/25 10:11 PM, Todd Aiken wrote: Greetings everybody. I am a new user of Bacula, and am having a very strange problem with setting up a new system that I hope somebody can help me with. I successfully set up a new installation of Bacula on an Ubuntu 24.02 server using the default configur

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

2025-07-25 Thread Todd Aiken
Greetings everybody. I am a new user of Bacula, and am having a very strange problem with setting up a new system that I hope somebody can help me with. I successfully set up a new installation of Bacula on an Ubuntu 24.02 server using the default configuration, and was able to run the Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread Richard Scobie
John Drescher wrote: > I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You > can not label barcodes however. I can confirm this, as I did this a couple of days ago, although watch out for the size of the emailed job report, which for me was just under 4MB and contained thousand

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> Yes, if you only have one drive, you need to have no jobs running in order to > do 'update slots' or 'label barcodes'. > I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You can not label barcodes however. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:37:48 +1100 Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > > > > Any time you add/remove tapes from the tape library, you need to do > > 'update slots' and 'label barcodes' in bacula. > > > > Does that not behave as you expect? > > > > -- > > Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:20:36 +1100 Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are > barcoded. > > I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. I would like to be > able to just insert new tapes and let bacula aut

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On 12 March 2010 13:04, John Drescher wrote: > > yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the > msgs > > didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be > wrong. > > The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not, 4 > > through 7

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
> yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs > didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong. > The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not,  4 > through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same al

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On 12 March 2010 12:44, John Drescher wrote: > > We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes > are > > barcoded. > > > > I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. > > This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I > have had it label.

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
> We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are > barcoded. > > I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I have had it label. When I add new tapes, I wait 5 minutes for my 24 slot changer

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi everyone, We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are barcoded. I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. I would like to be able to just insert new tapes and let bacula automatically label them using the barcode read from the tape. Is this possib

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with different pools is not sequential anymore?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Steen Meyer wrote: > Torsdag den 11. Marts 2010 15:50:36 skrev John Drescher: >> WOW! You must not have upgraded in some time. I believe this change >> came in 2008 or earlier.. >> >> > I have several pools in one filestorage directory. >> > Bacula automatically la

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with different pools is not sequential anymore?

2010-03-11 Thread Steen Meyer
Torsdag den 11. Marts 2010 15:50:36 skrev John Drescher: > WOW! You must not have upgraded in some time. I believe this change > came in 2008 or earlier.. > > > I have several pools in one filestorage directory. > > Bacula automatically labels new media as needed with the "LabelMedia = > > yes" par

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with different pools is not sequential anymore?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
WOW! You must not have upgraded in some time. I believe this change came in 2008 or earlier.. > I have several pools in one filestorage directory. > Bacula automatically labels new media as needed with the "LabelMedia = yes" > parameter. > > Count Bacula usually labelled each pools media sequentia

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with different pools is not sequential anymore?

2010-03-11 Thread Steen Meyer
Hello, I have several pools in one filestorage directory. Bacula automatically labels new media as needed with the "LabelMedia = yes" parameter. Count Bacula usually labelled each pools media sequentially from 1 going upwards in steps of one. Now with my new setup version 5.0.1 he mixes up the

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-08-01 Thread John Drescher
On 8/1/07, James Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >> Instead, however, I get this: > >> > >> - and it'll sit there indefinitely waiting for me to mount a volume > >> which it's created in the catalog but not labelled. > >> > > Type mount from the console, the actual labeling

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-08-01 Thread James Cort
John Drescher wrote: >> Instead, however, I get this: >> >> - and it'll sit there indefinitely waiting for me to mount a volume >> which it's created in the catalog but not labelled. >> > Type mount from the console, the actual labeling will happen after the > drive mounts and it detects it ha

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-07-31 Thread John Drescher
> Instead, however, I get this: > > * > *mes > 31-Jul 16:14 gemini-dir: Start Backup JobId 4719, > Job=dns-france.france.u4eatech.com.2007-07-31_16.14.38 > 31-Jul 16:14 gemini-dir: Created new Volume "Daily-DLT-0006" in catalog. > 31-Jul 16:14 taranis-sd: Please mount Volume "Daily-DLT-0006" on Sto

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-07-31 Thread James Cort
(re-sent because I sent it to the -bounces address - oops) Hi, I want to set up Bacula to automatically label any blank volumes. The volumes in question are DLT tapes, using a plain tape drive (no autochanger). The director's configuration is slightly complicated by the fact that there are t

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling

2007-05-07 Thread John Drescher
On 5/7/07, Joseph Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Automatic labelling does not appear to work correctly. > I have the following in my configurations, as per the instructions at > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/ > Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002612000 > > bacula-dir.conf: >

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling

2007-05-07 Thread Joseph Wright
Automatic labelling does not appear to work correctly. I have the following in my configurations, as per the instructions at http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/ Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002612000 bacula-dir.conf: Pool { Name = example-pool Pool Type = Backup Volume R