Nicola,

If you're using barcodes you can greatly simplify what you're doing. 
Instead of using one pool per day, just use one pool for all backups and 
one scratch pool.  Place all the tapes in the scratch pool.

Forget about trying to keep straight which tape is for which day and let 
bacula track that for you.  When you need to do a restore, let bacula tell 
you which volumes that data is on.

Set volume retention, job retention, file retention, and volume use 
duration if you find that you don't fill up a tape as fast as you would 
like, then if you wanted to do some inchanger-out of changer tape rotation, 
periodically remove tapes marked Full or Used.

To label them do 'label barcodes slots=first-last" substituting the slot 
numbers for the first and last slots holding the tapes to be labelled.

    Bob

> From: Nicola Quargentan <nicola AT quargentan DOT com>
> Subject: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Message-ID: <4AD79C49.3080801 AT quargentan DOT com>
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> 
> hi,
> 
> I'm very newbie and I want to use a DELL TL2000 autochanger.
> I made 7 pool in config file, one for each day of week:
> Monday, Tuesday, etc.
> 
> I want to use one volume for day and label it same as barcode. When I 
> tried "label barcode" I must to put all tape in only one pool:
> 
> *label barcode
> The defined Storage resources are:
>       1: File
>       2: autochanger
> Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
> Connecting to Storage daemon autochanger at backup.quargentan.loc:9103 ...
> Connecting to Storage daemon autochanger at backup.quargentan.loc:9103 ...
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
> Device "tape-burp-LTO4" has 23 slots.
> Connecting to Storage daemon autochanger at backup.quargentan.loc:9103 ...
> 3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
> The following Volumes will be labeled:
> Slot  Volume
> ==============
>     1  GDV100L4
>     5  GDV101L4
>     6  GDV102L4
>    12  GDV107L4
>    13  GDV105L4
>    14  GDV104L4
>    15  GDV103L4
>    16  GDV106L4
> Do you want to label these Volumes? (yes|no): yes
> Defined Pools:
>       1: Scratch
>       2: FullTest
>       3: DiffTest
>       4: IncrTest
>       5: Default
>       6: Monday
>       7: Tuesday
>       8: Wednesday
>       9: Thursday
>      10: Friday
>      11: Saturday
>      12: Sunday
> Select the Pool (1-12): .
> 
> So I cannot put the volume GDV100L4 in Monday, GDV101L4 in Tuesday etc.
> I tried also to put all volumes in Scratch pool, but bacula return a lot 
> of messages:
> Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled.
> 
> 1) Is there a clue to add one volume labeled by barcode to a single pool?
> 2) How I can relabel the volumes (I found a bad clue on the web: erase 
> every tapes manually  :(  ).
> 
> Thanks, Nicola.



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