Hi,
11.07.2008 09:03, Gregory Orange wrote:
> Here's another issue I'd like to know more about, and perhaps a request.
>
> We have an LTO3 drive and an LTO4 drive, in the same tape library.
> Bacula's "Media Type" directive seems to be merely a string which gets
> matched, rather than include any understanding of tape formats. For
> example, LTO3 tapes can be read in the LTO4 drive, but Bacula will
> refuse because they're 'different'. I know I can hack it by calling them
> all "LTO" but then we can get the issue that Bacula might put an LTO4
> tape in the LTO3 drive - yuck.
Yes.
> So, is there any potential support for stronger media awareness? I
> haven't found anything in my searches.
No support from Bacula. There are ideas to define a list of media
types that can be read and written per storage device (I don't know if
it made it into a formal feature request), but no work done.
If you start a project to implement it, I suppose you'll get good
support from the users as well as the developers :-)
Arno
> Cheers,
> Greg.
>
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