Hi, On 3/1/2007 4:05 AM, Paul England wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:00 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > >>On 2/28/07, Paul England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Hi Brian, >>> >>>Thanks for your quick response, >>> >>>I have found another way to do it.. it really does concern me doing it >>>manually, if bacula decides to change the tape in the auto changer >>>before I issue the weof command I could potentially lose data :S >>> >> >>If you are worried about that and their are no current jobs running >>stop the storage daemon before you do that and then start it after. > > > ahh I see, that's a great idea
Even simpler is to unmount the drive in question from bconsole... you can keep other jobs running, don't have to restart the SD afterwards,and your SD statistics keep going up :-) > >>>Here is the method I am using: >>> >>>host:/#bacula >>>*unmount This would be the unmount, and after that, Bacula will not load a tape into the drive. >>>*quit >>>host:/#mtx -f /dev/sg0 load 5 0 >>>host:/#mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind >>>host:/#mt -f /dev/nst0 weof >>> >>>Does anyone see a problem with this method? >>> >> >>Well if it fits your system than ok. I mean this is basically what >>Brian said but you added a mtx command to load the tape that is in the >>5th slot of your changer to the first drive. I question that but it >>may be what you wanted to do. Since you gave no details of your os >>version or changer that is as much as I can help you with. >> > > > okay cool, you assumed correctly, there's an autochanger Going back to your original message: You can not have two volumes with an identical name (it would be very difficult to decide which one to overwrite, for example :-) but when the volume name is unique but not in the catalog you can use the 'add' command. Arno > >>John > > > Thanks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
