On Thursday 03 August 2006 15:14, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
> >> I have a situation where we are about to add LTO3 drives to our changer,
> >> which currently has LTO2 drives and media onboard.
> >>
> >> For obvious reasons I want to be able to use the LTO2 tapes in the LTO3
> >> drives, but I also have to prevent any attempts to load LTO3 tapes into
> >> the LTO2 drives.
> >>
> >> This is somewhat different to mixing completely incompatible media
> >> types/drives in the changer.
> >>
> >> Kern, what are your thoughts?
> >
> > Currently, there is only one MediaType per Volume, so I don't see anyway
to
> > accomplish what you want -- automatically.
>
> There only needs to be (and should be) one mediatype per volume.
Yes you are right.
>
> What's needed is the ability to define multiple mediatypes per tape drive.
Unfortunately it is a lot more complicated than that, but 1.39 gets half way
there.
>
> Something like:
>
> (bacula-sd.conf)
>
> Device {
> Name = LTO3-drive #
> .
> Media Type = LTO-3
> Media Type = LTO-2
> .
> }
>
> Or "Media Type = LTO-3, LTO-2"
>
>
> AB
>
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