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Re: [Bacula-users] Why "Wrote label to prelabeled Volume..."?

2015-08-27 03:22:59
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Why "Wrote label to prelabeled Volume..."?
From: Radosław Korzeniewski <radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net>
To: bacula-users <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:20:13 +0200
Hello,

2015-08-02 10:02 GMT+02:00 jalil1408 <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>:
Why Bareos/Bacula write label while I've already labeled it?

Because of tapes. When you write a label to tape then you need to write a whole block (about 64kB, or more when you setup a larger block size). You cant write in the middle of the block. In this block only a few hundred bytes are used. Then this kind of label is called prelabel which is overwritten during a first backup job with a label and backup stream.

best regards
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Radosław Korzeniewski
radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net
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