Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-03 Thread John Steel
Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hooray! >> I owe you a virtual beer ;-) >> I labelled the tape. However, it returned too quickly having only backed >> up 58Mb, I have 80Gb in the tree. I was expecting it to take hours then >> prompt for another tape which I'd label "2006-2" and so on. Sorry this >> is so

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 5/3/2007 12:36 AM, John Steel wrote: > Brian Debelius wrote: >> John Steel wrote: >>> Brian Debelius wrote: John Steel wrote: > Continuing with the longest backup in history... :-[ use purge and label. or purge, then mt -f yourtapedrive rewind, mt -f yourtapedrive weof

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread John Steel
Brian Debelius wrote: > John Steel wrote: >> Brian Debelius wrote: >>> John Steel wrote: Continuing with the longest backup in history... :-[ >>> >>> use purge and label. >>> or purge, then mt -f yourtapedrive rewind, mt -f yourtapedrive weof, >>> mt -f yourtapedrive rewind, label >>> >>> Ho

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 5/2/2007 9:45 PM, John Steel wrote: > Brian Debelius wrote: >> John Steel wrote: >>> Continuing with the longest backup in history... :-[ We'll try to make it longer ;-) >>> Please...what is it asking for? >>> I'm only trying to get the first tape going. Another poster said use >>> purge

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread John Drescher
> To check if the tape really has an old bacula lable, he could also use > btape with the readlable command. > Good advice. I messed up my reply anyways as he was doing a purge command and not a delete so what Brian said was the correct answer over mine. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > > It purges (deletes) all Files from a Job, > > JobId, Client or Volume; or it purges (deletes) > > all Jobs from a Client or Volume without regard > > for retention periods. Normally you should use the > > PRUNE command, which respects retention periods. > > You have the f

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread John Drescher
> It purges (deletes) all Files from a Job, > JobId, Client or Volume; or it purges (deletes) > all Jobs from a Client or Volume without regard > for retention periods. Normally you should use the > PRUNE command, which respects retention periods. > You have the following choices: > 1: files >

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread Brian Debelius
John Steel wrote: > Brian Debelius wrote: >> John Steel wrote: >>> Continuing with the longest backup in history... :-[ >>> Please...what is it asking for? >>> I'm only trying to get the first tape going. Another poster said use >>> purge & relabel, once again theres something you need to know bef

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread John Steel
Brian Debelius wrote: > John Steel wrote: >> Continuing with the longest backup in history... :-[ >> Please...what is it asking for? >> I'm only trying to get the first tape going. Another poster said use >> purge & relabel, once again theres something you need to know before >> you can even do t

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge, relabel - more voodoo needed

2007-05-02 Thread Brian Debelius
John Steel wrote: > Continuing with the longest backup in history... :-[ > Please...what is it asking for? > I'm only trying to get the first tape going. Another poster said use > purge & relabel, once again theres something you need to know before you > can even do that. > > It looks like it won