On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Christopher Dick <jcdick1 AT yahoo DOT com>
wrote:
> I have an LTO-2 library with 20 slots and have a question about tape handling
> in Bacula. I have been running backups for about two weeks now, and I've
> about filled my tapes. I have two free slots yet, and then I am going to
> have to "check out" tapes and refill the library. The first fulls were quite
> large and got minimal compression.
>
> In my library, the 20th slot is the mail slot, for checking in and out tapes.
> My question is, does Bacula have a facility for doing this? I put a new
> tape in the mail slot, but I couldn't find any bat or bconsole command to
> tell bacula to take that tape and label it according to the barcode and then
> move it to an available slot. I had to use command line mtx to actually do a
> full re-inventory of the library and move the tape myself so that Bacula
> could say "oh, hey, that tape in that slot isn't in my db." At that point, I
> could issue a "label barcodes".
>
> So, in short, does bacula have an internal facility for checking in and out
> tapes from the library and I am just missing it?
>
No. Bacula does not have any commands for this. Just do the tape
manipulations yourself and then use update volumes and probably label
barcodes
John
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