Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-16 12:50:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode
From: Nicola Quargentan <nicola AT quargentan DOT com>
To: bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:45:42 +0200
Bob Hetzel ha scritto:
> 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.

Ok, now this is that I want.

> 
> 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.

I'm not fully persuased about bacula. I fear that the database (MySQL) 
become corrupted.

> 
> 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.
> 

Ok, I think the first problem was to erase all volume. Now when I label 
barcodes the volumes was defined in my scratch pool :)

cut...

Thanks.

Nicola Quargentan


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