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

2009-01-09 19:03:15
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula recognise newly added volumes while waiting for another volume?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Nils Blanck-Wehde <nils.blanck-wehde AT backofficeservice DOT biz>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:59:23 -0500
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?

use the mount command.  mount that Volume

> 
> 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!
> 
> Nils
> 
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