On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Alan Brown wrote:

Well, there is NO such thing as an LTO-4 drive.  They are both LTO-3 
drives.  I'm not sure that media type declaration does anything specific 
for a "real" media type, at least not in this case.  I'm guessing it's 
just used as a name or label.

Dirk

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> 
>> This solution solved the problem, thanks very much:  I defined the
>> media type for the tape drive in one of the autoloaders to be LTO-4,
>> leaving the other one as LTO-3 and now I can restore from backups made
>> to either autoloader.
>
> How can you backup LTO-3 media in the LTO-4 drive?
>
> This is one limitation I could never see a way of working around, unless 
> bacula allowed multiple media type definitions on a drive.
>
> AB
>
>

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