On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:14 PM, SZÉKELYI Szabolcs <c...@mail.3d.hu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > when Bacula (console) asks to specify a volume, it does so by requiring > the user to enter the label or the ID of the volume. This causes > problems if your tapes are labeled with numbers only, since from the > user's point of view it's ambiguous if it will interpret the entered > value as an ID or as a label. This actually happened when we wanted to > purge one of our volumes (irrelevant output truncated): > >> *purge jobs volume >> Defined Pools: >> 7: bacula-super-full-tape-Pool >> Select the Pool (1-9): 7 >> +---------+------------+-----------+ >> | MediaId | VolumeName | ... >> +---------+------------+-----------+ >> | 48 | 000040 | Full | >> | 49 | 000041 | Append | >> +---------+------------+-----------+ >> Enter MediaId or Volume name: 000041 >> 1 File on Volume "000008" purged from catalog. >> There are no more Jobs associated with Volume "000008". Marking it purged. > > We wanted to purge the volume with label "000041" (MediaId 49), and the > volume with label "000008" (MediaId 41) got purged. > > There are two surprising things in this story: > > First, looking back, it's unclear if Bacula interprets the input as a > MediaId or a Label. A solution could be not using labels of numbers > only, however, this should be mentioned in the documentation (I couldn't > find it). A cleaner solution would be dropping the ambiguous question > and asking just the Label or just the MediaId, not in an "as it gets" > manner. > > Second, in the above example, Bacula purged a tape that was not part of > the selected pool. I understand why this happened (the list of volumes > is just informational), but as a naive user, I found it strange for the > first time. IMHO this should be checked before purging the tape. > > - --
I do not have time to look but there was a discussion on the list about this a few weeks ago. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
