Thanx John for the reply.

We will be keeping both the tape libraries old+new in the environment.
We have configured another bacula server for the new library.
And plan is to keep half the jobs onto new tape library lateron.
But first test is to verify if the tapes from old are readable. So that in case 
of old bacula server going down , we will be in a position to use(read) the 
tapes in new library. 


Thanx,
Admin

-----Original Message-----
From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2012 16:17
To: Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula volume on new tapelibrary

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Holikar, Sachin (ext)
<sachin.holikar.ext AT siemens DOT com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. We have been using LTO-3
> tapes.
>
> Recently we have purchased another tape library Eternus LT40.  LTO3
> tapes are said to be compatible with this new library.
> We have configured Bacula 5.2.6 onto it.
>
> Now we would like to verify if the backed up tapes on the old tapelibrary
> are readable in new tapelibrary.
>
> Can we simply take out the tape from a single pool and insert it into new
> tape library to be able to read?
> Or are there any required steps to be performed for this operation?
>
> We tried to find out the help topics related to this but did not find any
> relevant information.
>
> Please assist.
>

Are you migrating the old bacula server or do you want the new
tapearchive to have a completely independent server and not know
anything about the jobs, clients, volumes from the other server. In
the past when  I have added a new tape drives, library ... I just add
it to the same director even though it may not physically be on the
same server.

John

John

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