Jesper Krogh ha scritto:
> Nicola Quargentan wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Monday, Tuesday and so is mostly used when you dont have an autochanger.

Oh you are right: before autochanger I have only a single tape drive, 
and I change the tape every day :O

> When you do have one I recommend setting up Pools so then reflect your
> retention policies. In my setup we:
> * Keep full backups for a year (run monthly)
> * Keep differential backups for a year (run weekly)
> * Keep incremental backups for 6 months (run daily).
> 
> This translates into 3 Pools, Full, Differential and Incremental. On
> these pools the retentiontime is set and then automatically move back to
> Scratch-pool when retention-time has expired. So all "fresh" volumes
> just goes directly into Scratch pool.
> 
> Bacula will try to "fill tapes completely" e.g. fill mondays's tape with
> tuesdays data if not explicitly configured otherwise.

Uhmm, I want to be indipendent from bacula. My purpose is to 
occasionally carry out my tapes, and store them on a strongbox :)
If my backup bacula server crash I don't want lose all my data.
So I want to know where bacula store my data.

cut...
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Ok, you have to manually move your tapes into the tapedrive (mtx -f
> /dev/changerdevice load 0 <slot> ) and dd some data onto it. That'll
> erase the "label" on it. The thing is that this is most likely the
> second time you ran "label barcodes" and each tape can only be labelled
> once, then you need to manually erase it to get it back in.
> 
>> 1) Is there a clue to add one volume labeled by barcode to a single pool?
> 
> label barcodes slot=<slotnumber>

I will try it.

> 
>> 2) How I can relabel the volumes (I found a bad clue on the web: erase 
>> every tapes manually :( ).
> 
> That is how its done.. if its all in your changer then a few lines of
> shell-foo can do it.

I hate this, but I'm erasing the tapes now...

Thanks.

Nicola Quargentan



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