> Should I be using ANSI or IBM Tape Labels. Which is preferable? In an IBM environment, both work, but IBM SL tapes will be more "friendly" to the other systems sharing your ATL.
> Should all the Tapes be labeled with VM and them and them added to > Bacula. Ie not labeled with Bacula. You use the BLABELI or BLABELA execs to initialize the tapes and put the proper dataset signature on the tape. Bacula treats the IBM labels as containers, and writes its own information as part of the data inside the files maintained by the SL tape. The Bacula label should be the same as the volser in the IBM SL VOL1 record. > Do you them update the changer list? You treat them like any other Bacula volume, either allowing them to be added as scratch tapes or adding them to a pool. > The other problem I have is that RAWBACIF cannot find the tapes in the > changer list. Does it look for the volumes bacula passes on from the mtx > changer script? The volser is passed from Bacula if a specific volser is requested. If Bacula needs a scratch tape, it passes SCRTCH as the volser. > Does RAWBACIF update the changer list? No, it does not. The mtx wrapper script handles the interaction with the rest of Bacula. The changer list is what volsers RAWBACIF is permitted to use when using the basic mode. If you have a TMS like VMTAPE or similar, you should modify RAWBACIF to use it rather than the local changer (we have a commercial version of this interface that does that for different TMS systems; the sample is a demonstration of how it can be done). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
