Bart Verwilst wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm trying to setup a Bacula to back up a remote server. I'm going to try and
> explain my current setup and ultimate goal ;)
> Now, how do i proceed to automate the tape naming and such? When i created a
> volume on bconsole with the add command, then tried to run a backup, it
> nagged that the tape had the wrong label, and to insert a tape with another
> name.. But it should just automatically overwrite the existing ones.. :$
>
> I don't fully get the naming.. Should i manually give all 8 tapes a name, and
> then add them through bconsole with the same names? But the naming i want
> them to have is dynamic ( Label Format = "Test-$Day$Month$Year" ), so it'll
> nag again that i don't have the correct named tape present, and to insert
> it... :$
There is no mechanism for automatically deleting and relabelling tapes.
I suggest just naming all your tapes once, numerically, and using them
in rotation. If you need to restore something, Bacula will tell you
which tape it needs anyway; the whole point of an automated backup
system with a catalog database is that it keeps track of things like
this for you.
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