Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-10 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
Am 04.08.2010 12:56, schrieb sid009: > Hi Guys, > > I am new to Bacula and an average Linux user. I am trying to setup > Bacula to work with our HP LTO4 Autochanger (7 slots + 1 mail slot). > I have managed to label all the tapes and I can see all the volumes > listed via bconsole. The problem I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-06 Thread John Drescher
>> Do you have any valuable backups on the tapes? > > > Only one tape yes, is there a way to preserve the data and re-lable? > I would put that aside for now and migrate it later. http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/Migration_Copy.html > > I suppose I will also have to roll back a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-06 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, sid009 wrote: > >> That is bad. Each line should have a Volume tag. Do you only have >> labels on 1 tape? > > > Thanks for pointing this out I would have never noticed. Only one volume was > being shown because I had put a barcode on one tape to test the re-labell

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-06 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:02 AM, sid009 wrote: > >> What does "mtx status" return? >> >> > > Following is the output: > > r...@xxx# mtx status >  Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 1 Import/Export ) > Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded) >      Storage Element 1:Emp

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-05 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On Thu, August 5, 2010 20:21, sid009 wrote: > >> >> To the OP - Have you put the barcode stickers (from HP) *on the tape >> cartridges the correct way up?* >> > > > Didn't receive any barcodes from HP unfortunately so I have printed off > some 3 of 9 barcodes (ending with L1,L2...) to stick on tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On Thu, August 5, 2010 02:08, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >>> It does matter if they have data on them. >>> >> >> Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase >> them first. > > Or if they have last night's Bacula backups on them... > > "Label barcodes" i

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:21 PM, sid009 wrote: > Following is the list of Volumes I have: > > > *list volumes > Pool: Default > +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ > | MediaId | Vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Alan Brown wrote: >> John Drescher wrote: >> It does matter if they have data on them. >>> >>> Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase >>> them first. >> >> Or if t

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >>> It does matter if they have data on them. >>> >> >> Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase >> them first. > > Or if they have last night's Bacula backups on them... > > "Label barcode

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Brown
John Drescher wrote: >> It does matter if they have data on them. >> > > Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase > them first. Or if they have last night's Bacula backups on them... "Label barcodes" is an extremely dangerous command and should be used with ext

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. >>> >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Brown
John Drescher wrote: >>> It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you >>> have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue >>> label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. >> You assume you have a changer full of blank tapes. >> > > It does

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
>> It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you >> have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue >> label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. > > You assume you have a changer full of blank tapes. > It does not matter if some are alre

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for your prompt response. I looked at the link you just provided when > I was setting up Bacula. Just a bit more information, when I was labelling > the volumes, Bacula was not auto-labelling any of the tapes so I had to > simulate the barcodes by following the steps in "Simulating Barc

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/08/10, sid009 (bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com) wrote: > I am new to Bacula and an average Linux user. I am trying to setup > Bacula to work with our HP LTO4 Autochanger (7 slots + 1 mail slot). I > have managed to label all the tapes and I can see all the volumes > listed via bconsole. The pr