On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:23:31AM -0800, Christopher Dick 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?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris

i do this manually. in bconsole, i umount the drives, then at the library i 
export the tapes
i want to remove and import new or recycled tapes. then in bconsole, i run 
update slots and label
any new tapes if needed. 

-- michael


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