On Saturday 19 November 2005 12:09, Tobias Barth wrote:
> Kern Sibbald schrieb:
> >On Saturday 19 November 2005 11:58, Tobias Barth wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>If I want to bscan from multiple volumes, I got the problem that the
> >>concatenation of all volume labels may not be longer than 128 chars. So
> >>I cannot bscan from all volumes of a job in one bscan run. What happens
> >>if I use bscan runs - will all file records be read into the database?
> >
> >It is better to specify all the Volumes on one bscan call otherwise
> > records that span a tape will be missed. If they are data (as is most
> > likely the problem), there is no problem, but if they are attributes or
> > something that goes into the database, then the database will be
> > incomplete. Generally this is not fatal, but it is not the best way to
> > go.
>
> so are also jobs be lost which span multiple tapes, or is the problem
> just with the single file that is distributed to two tapes?
A Job could be lost. It all depends on exactly what record spans the tapes ...
As I said, the probability is low, but it can and it *will* happen that
something gets lost if the tapes are not read back in the correct order ...
>
> >>Alternative - how can I write an appropriate bootstrap file?
> >
> >The format and the details on how to write a bootstrap file are described
> > in the manual.
>
> Okay, thanks :)
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Kern
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