Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula recognise newly added volumes while waiting for another volume?

2009-01-09 18:32:25
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula recognise newly added volumes while waiting for another volume?
From: Craig White <craigwhite AT azapple DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:29:39 -0700
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:57 +0100, Nils Blanck-Wehde wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> Please excuse the crappy topic, I couldn't think of a better one...
> 
> Bacula just asked me to load a specific volume or lable a new one. This
> is totally ok as none of the available volumes has exceeded the
> retention period. In order to give bacula an appendable volume, I
> manually purged one of the remaining volumes. As a result, now there in
> fact is an appendable volume from the right pool available.
> Is there any way to make bacula recognise the newly purged volume and
> use it for the pending job?
> 
> This happened because I had to do some extra backups lately and
> therefore ran out of available tapes BEFORE the oldest tapes exceeded
> their retention period.
> 
> I think I could just cancel / reschedule the job but it would be smarter
> if I could make Bacula notice the available volume...
> 
> Thanks for any hints and have a nice weekend!
----
mount...

mount (media)
or likely just insert the tape and
mount

Craig


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