Hello,
29.07.2008 17:15, Bob Hetzel wrote:
> Arno Lehmann wrote:
>
> >Bob Hetzel wrote:
>>>
>>> Anybody else think this is a bug or am I missing some reason why it
>>> should prompt for a drive when I do an "update slots" as shown below:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> *update slots
>>> Automatically selected Storage: Dell-PV136T
>>> Enter autochanger drive[0]:
>>> Connecting to Storage daemon Dell-PV136T at gyrus:9103 ...
>>> 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
>>> Device "Dell-PV136T" has 72 slots.
>>> Connecting to Storage daemon Dell-PV136T at gyrus:9103 ...
>>> 3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
>>> Catalog record for Volume "LTO263L2" updated to reference slot 1.
>>> ---
>>> [other tape entries deleted for brevity]
>>>
>>> Should I file a bug report?
>> I don't think so... perhaps a feature request to use the available
>> drive is only one is defined for the autochanger. Otherwise, it makes
>> perfect sense that Bacula wants to know which drive to use a updating
>> slots requires unloading the drive it works with.
>>
>> Basically, to read a tapes barcode label, it (often) is required to be
>> in a storage slot, not in a tape drive.
>>
>> Arno
>>
>
> So are you saying that this is only for users who are doing the single
> drive setup (i.e. no autochanger) or don't have barcodes (and so the
> tapes have to be read)?
Erm... no.
Single drive setups won't use 'update slots' at all. And autochangers
often need the tapes in the slots to read the barcodes.
An autochanger setup without barcode capability needs to know which
drive to use to scan the volumes. One with barcodes does not
*technically* have to unload the tape (as the label of the volume,
when loaded, should already be known to Bacula), but still unloads the
tape so the barcode label can be read.
Anyway, a feature request to change that behaviour would probably be
accepted, though I suspect it would get a very low priority.
Arno
>
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