Brian Debelius wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > Dan Langille wrote: >> 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. >> >> >> > > Thanks, But, I also said ... "If I then read the label with btape, > btape says there is no label". The tape was labeled and used before.
Yes, I read that and I understood this completely. I was addressing the word 'specific' and ensuring that you, or anyone else reading, understood that the tape requested by Bacula is a suggestion. -- 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
