Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO media type mixup

2012-03-05 10:46:17
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] LTO media type mixup
From: Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt AT phoenixsoftware DOT de>
To: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:44:26 +0100
Am 05.03.2012 15:43, schrieb Alan Brown:
> On 05/03/12 14:17, Adrian Reyer wrote:

>> Well, 'Media Type' is misleading. It is more a 'Media Group'. every
>> medium in the same group can be requested on every SD that support that
>> 'Media Group'. It doesn't actually have anything to do with the mediums
>> capabilities/size.
> 
> To add confusion, any given bacula drive can only support one media type.
> 
> The only way around this problem is to define extra drives for each
> media type supported (ie, LTO5, LTO4 and (read-only) LTO3).

What's wrong with just defining a single media type "LTO" covering all
generations in use?

-- 
Tilman Schmidt
Phoenix Software GmbH
Bonn, Germany

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