On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:47:47PM +0000, Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > Can a (disk) volume be automatically relabelled when it is recycled? > > > > > > > I don't think that's supported atm.. > > > > I'd like to have that feature too. It shouldn't be too hard to implement.. > > A recycled volume is still only a candidate for being written on. Volumes > are labelled when they're moved from recycle to append. > > The decision to not relabel tapes until the last possible moment is > deliberate. > > This gives a last-possible-moment for recovering data off a tape which > have been wiped from the database, using the various bacula command line > utilities. > > It also reduces excessive tape handling. Bear in mind that media like LTO > has a chip onboard and counts each load/unload cycle towards the end of > the tape's lifetime (162 cycles(*)) even if only the very beginning of the > tape has been read/written. > > (Yes, this means the "lifetime warranty" on LTO media has different > real-world durations depending on the purposes the tapes are put to. > Other media has similar limitations) >
Thanks for your comments. This could be an option to enable only for disk volumes.. If I end up implementing this, I'll make sure default behaviour is not changed, and you need to manually enable 'relabeling' if you want to. -- Pasi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users