Hi, On 9/11/2006 11:28 AM, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello. > When adding a new tape to the pool, bacula ask me in with slot the > new tape is.(I'm using an autocharger) > When launching a restore job, bacula asks me for a specific tape so > it can perform the restore. > My question is: > do i need do insert the requested tape on the original > slot(specified when the tape was added to the pool), > or can I insert the tape in any slot (bacula should search > for it) > or insert it on the drive? > What then? Will issuing a "mount" command be sufficient for bacula > to continue the job?
No. After you change tapes, you have to inform Bacula of these changes. You could do this manually, using the 'update volume' command, or (semi-)automatic by using the 'update slots' command. If your autochanger has barcode support and your tapes are barcoded, this is a rather quick operation, otherwise use the 'update slots scan' syntax which will have Bacula load all the tapes from the slots you specify (so no need to read all tapes when you only changed some slots!) and update its catalog accordingly. For example, I use the following command twice a week: 'update slots scan storage=HPDAT' when I swap magazines for incremental and differential backups. When, for example for restoring, I only changed two tapes, the command could be 'update slots=2,3 scan storage=DLT'. These are real-life examples so I expect them to work for you, too. More information is, as usualy, in TFM, especially the chapters dealing with the console commands. Hope this helps, Arno > Thanks > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
