Re: [Bacula-users] multitape and automatic labeling

2005-07-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: There is something on the tape which bacula doesn't like when it scans the start of the tape. Writing an EOF solves the problem but it means tapes need massaging and can't simply be unwrapped, labelled and stuck in magazines. Well, this is a function

Re: [Bacula-users] multitape and automatic labeling

2005-07-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Paul Waldo wrote: Hi all, The multitape saga continues :-). I have the mutitape device set up (2 drives). ... It appears that when I started the backup, bacula realized that it needed a tape, there was a blank available and so bacula created a catalog entry, but did not label the

Re: [Bacula-users] multitape and automatic labeling

2005-07-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Paul Waldo wrote: Hi Arno, No the tape was not labeled--it was blank as can be. I am seeing this behaviour with truely blank LTOs too. Try writing 2 EOFs to the start of the tapes and try it again. Nor was that volume label in the catalog. I was under the impression

Re: [Bacula-users] multitape and automatic labeling

2005-07-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 18:12, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: I am seeing this behaviour with truely blank LTOs too. Try writing 2 EOFs to the start of the tapes and try it again. No, but bacula needs to detect the tapes are blank, rather than

Re: [Bacula-users] multitape and automatic labeling

2005-07-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 19:30, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: There is something on the tape which bacula doesn't like when it scans the start of the tape. Writing an EOF solves the problem but it means tapes need massaging and can't simply be unwrapped,

[Bacula-users] multitape and automatic labeling

2005-07-12 Thread Paul Waldo
Hi all, The multitape saga continues :-). I have the mutitape device set up (2 drives). I have a blank tape in each drive and started a backup. Here is my pool definition: # Default pool definition Pool { Name = Default Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes # Bacula