John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Keith Sudbury <keith AT netzensolutions DOT
> com> wrote:
>
>> John Drescher wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Keith Sudbury <keith AT netzensolutions DOT
>>> com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have an LTO-3 drive on my server and currently my backups re only
>>>> about 100GB, and I could (and currently am fitting multiple backups on
>>>> one tape). I am obviously changing the tape each day etc (its not the
>>>> same tape) I have a different tape for mon - thursday and friday1
>>>> friday2 etc
>>>>
>>>> But I am wondering if I should be using *Use Volume Once = Yes *which
>>>> would then mark the tape FULL after it has used it once. If I don't do
>>>> this I will eventually get to a day when only half a backup fits on the
>>>> end?
>>>> *
>>>> *Or is it fine to leave more than one backup on a tape?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It is fine. I have had > 30 backups on a single LTO2 tape.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am ejecting my tapes with "umount LTO-3" is this ok? or should I be
>>>> using "release LTO-3" and then doing umount?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Release is better because it does not remove the drive from bacula's
>>> control so that if you reinsert the tape you will not need to mount
>>> it. If you umount a tape bacula will not have control of the tape
>>> drive until you issue a mount command inside of bacula.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> So a "mt eject" should work after I have done a 'release LTO-3' | bconsole
>>
>> And its fine to put in a different tape, so for example release mondays
>> tape do a mt eject then put in tuesdays tape...
>>
>>
> No need to eject. Release will eject the tape but the bacula will
> automatically mount the next tape instead of requiring the user to
> issue a mount in bacula. I hope I am not too confusing...
>
Cool, I understand now! So i can just add: echo 'release LTO-3' | bconsole
To an Admin job and set the priority higher and this will spit out the
tape, and when a user puts in a new tape and the next job comes around
bacula will be able to use the tape in the drive.
Keith
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