Thanks!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:53 AM
To: Arch Willingham
Cc: Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Use tapes with no operator input

2009/4/1 Arch Willingham <arch AT tuparks DOT com>:
> The vast majority of our data backup is handled by Bacula and other backup
> software  putting stuff on different hard drives. We have a small amount of
> data that we put on tape and take off site. I'd like to be able to have a
> secretary walk in on Monday, pull out the old tape and pop in the new
> tape..no logging in, no nothing. The tape would only get written on Friday
> night and would stay in there the rest of the week.
>
>
>
> I'd like Bacula to basically say "I don't care what's in that tape drive,
> I'm going to write to it". We recirculate four tapes.
>
>
>
> I have read the manual until I am about to croak but all that volume
> labeling, pools, etc leaves me scratching my head. Any ideas?
>
>
>
Make Volume Use Duration be the maximum backup time if you have more
than 1 job.

Othewise use the

Use Volume Once = yes

or perhaps

Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn

Then
Recycle Current Volume = yes

http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html

John

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