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

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