ty Wilson wrote:
> Hi Bacula People,
> It will be painfully apparent that I am new to bacula.
> Our organisation performs a backup to two SDLTs every week (it takes two
> to hold the full set). Every four weeks, they want to relabel the tapes
> as 'monthly-XX', do the weekly back-up to it, take that week's tapes off
> site. They also want to bring back two old monthly tapes from
> way-back-whenever and relabel them with the weekly tape pair name of the
> ones that they'd relabelled to make the monthly (whoa, I just lost
> /myself/!).
Uh .....
You know "they" are barking mad, right? The sane solution to this would
be to buy separate monthly tapes.
> Anyway, all that aside--I've read the manual and I'm just not sure on a
> particular issue: can one purge then relabel volumes willy-nilly, even
> with volume names you've used before, and backups will still happen
> happily?
Well, yeah, it'll *WORK* ... you'll have to purge, delete, erase, then
re-label from scratch, rather than just using the relabel command ...
but it's a lot of extra work and opportunity for error just to save a
few bucks. You might ask them which is more important to them -- their
data, or the cost of a few SDLT tapes.
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