Hello,

Thanks for your reply. Yes upgrade is a MUST and is in a planning stage.

Yes I will not use the faulty tape anymore but as you said , if I use delete 
option to delete the volume tape totally, even though Bacula finds all the jobs 
on that tape , deletion will remove all the data contents on it. So data loss 
without any inconsistencies. Am I correct?


Thanks,
Sachin Holikar 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Montag, 2. August 2010 14:43
To: Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement

> We are using Bacula 2.2.7.


Please upgrade. That is over two years old and will not be supported
for bug fixes ... anymore.

> The problem is, a tape in one of the working pools gets I/O errors whenever
> tape library tried to access it.
> I could see that tape has some data on it. Now I wish to replace this tape
> with a new tape with new name. (As I feel, using new name would not make
> much difference or would  it?).
>
> Please correct the proposed steps :
>
> Add new tape in the library.
> Move the tape and move it into one of the empty slots.
> Label the tape to the respective Volume Pool.
>
The last step. A label barcodes will do. Ignore that bacula will ask
about every tape in the library. Bacula will only label tapes that are
not labeled. I generally at this step put the tapes in the Scratch
pool.

> Now please state the steps to purge the susepcted tape. I would like to
> transfer the data on this tape onto the new tape.
> As I do not wish to break the data consistency within the volume pool.
> Correct me if I am wrong here.
>
If you are totally getting rid of that tape never to use it again.
delete volume

if you want to try to use it again
purge volume

Both commands find all backup jobs on that volume and purge the jobs
even if the job started on a different tape.
John

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