Brian Debelius wrote: > Hi, > > Over the couple of years that I have been using two VXA-172 drives, I > have noticed that my VXA tapes occasionally lose their label. Once this > week, on each of two different backup systems, I have had to intervene > because bacula said to put in a specific tape
NOTE: said tape is a suggestion only. Bacula will accept another tape, provided it can be appended to or overwritten. > or label a new one. The > tape bacula wants is already loaded into the drive. If I then read the > label with btape, btape says there is no label. So I then label the > tape again and go on my merry way. > > If this is the case, I think I will have to come up with a way to read > the label during a load, and if its not there, then see if the tape > exists in the catalog, and if it does exist, then relabel it. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
