On 5/1/07, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, I'm a complete newbie. In fact apart from the test (which worked
> > great) Bacula has never written anything to any of my tapes.
> > I'll look again for this purge and relabel. I sure hope it clicks soon,
> > it seems really powerful but
Simon Tomlinson wrote:
> Hi
> It looks like the volume already has a label so you can't label it
> again. Are you recycling it? If this is the case then you have to
> purge and use relabel.
> The full instructions for recycling volumes are in the manual.
>
No, I'm a complete newbie. In fact
Hi
It looks like the volume already has a label so you can't label it
again. Are you recycling it? If this is the case then you have to purge
and use relabel.
The full instructions for recycling volumes are in the manual.
Simon
John Steel wrote:
Erich Prinz wrote:
I do know that in
Erich Prinz wrote:
> I do know that in bcosole, you must mount the drive and then issue
>
> label
>
> to label the media mounted in the volume. Very similar with disc
> backups if you aren't automatically labeling the volumes. Your choice
> what to name it. Bacula will then use the newly created
> > On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:28 AM, John Steel wrote:
> >> 2. Why does the "bytes" column show 58.2M when I know the backup is
> >> much
> >> bigger?
>
> Maybe you've got compression enabled on your job or on the tape drive
> (though I'm not sure whether Bacula is actually aware of the compressed
> si
I do know that in bcosole, you must mount the drive and then issue
label
to label the media mounted in the volume. Very similar with disc
backups if you aren't automatically labeling the volumes. Your choice
what to name it. Bacula will then use the newly created volume for
the backup job.
Erich Prinz wrote:
> I can only get you pointed in the direction you need to take --
> hopefully one with more tape savvy will chime in here.
>
> From my limited experience with tapes, there are a couple utilities
> that need to be run to make sure bacula can talk to the drive. One
> utility wil
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Erich Prinz wrote:
> There are also the mtx-changer scripts and some modifications that
> will alert you to tape changes (see notes in the source code for more
> details.)
No need for mtx-changer scripts just to be notified when a tape needs to
be
I can only get you pointed in the direction you need to take --
hopefully one with more tape savvy will chime in here.
From my limited experience with tapes, there are a couple utilities
that need to be run to make sure bacula can talk to the drive. One
utility will write to the tape checki
I am still trying to do my first bacula backup to tape, its a 80G folder
from 2006 disk based backups.
I think I have the correct job set up, I understand its a manual full
job (no schedule) and have run into 2 problems (as seen in the log below).
1. Why can't I use my tape? I don't care whats
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