Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-26 Thread George Anchev via Bacula-users
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:04:20 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > You need an additional 'l'. > 'list' and 'llist' (long list) are two different > commands. Aha! I thought it was a typo. Thanks for clarifying. So it seems this info is directly dependent on what is in the database. I see that here

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-26 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 26.09.2018 um 16:12 schrieb George Anchev via Bacula-users: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:03:30 +0200 Radosław > Korzeniewski wrote: > >> Yes and especially llist volume=... command. :) >> where you can find something like: >> (...) >> firstwritten: 2018-08-17 02:00:11 >> lastwritten:

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-26 Thread George Anchev via Bacula-users
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:03:30 +0200 Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > Yes and especially llist volume=... command. :) > where you can find something like: > (...) > firstwritten: 2018-08-17 02:00:11 > lastwritten: 2018-08-18 02:00:11 > labeldate: 2018-08-17 02:00:03 > (...) Hm. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-26 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, niedz., 23 wrz 2018 o 11:25 George Anchev via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> napisał(a): > Hi Kern, > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:41:12 +0200 Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Bacula maintains certain simple metrics about > > particular Volume (tape) usage in the Media record > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-23 Thread George Anchev via Bacula-users
Hi Kern, On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:41:12 +0200 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Bacula maintains certain simple metrics about > particular Volume (tape) usage in the Media record > of the catalog.  So as long as you do not delete > Volumes from the catalog, those metrics will > persist. Do you mean the 'list

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Bacula maintains certain simple metrics about particular Volume (tape) usage in the Media record of the catalog.  So as long as you do not delete Volumes from the catalog, those metrics will persist. Another method to get metrics about particular tape Volumes is to use the tapealert

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-21 Thread George Anchev via Bacula-users
Thanks, I know what Wikipedia says. My question is about how can Bacula help to monitor these metrics. > Bacula does maintain metrics on each volume should > you want to monitor their usage. How exactly? If a volume is purged (manually or say every N months) - how can Bacula maintain metrics

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-21 Thread Clark, Patti
Most everything that you'd want to know about LTO tape for each version can be found here on Wikipedia. It has a section that talks about longevity and number of passes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open I have 6 year old LTO-5 media that has been used by my Bacula backups with

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-21 Thread George Anchev via Bacula-users
Thanks Patti! I guess my info was stale. What about age and write cycles? I believe those still apply to LTO. -- George ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-21 Thread Clark, Patti
I have never seen an article or reference regarding re-tensioning LTO media. In fact Quantum answered a similar question: "Retensioning is not needed on single hub media, such as DLT and LTO. Dual hub media requires retensioning after it has been dropped as the tape path because it can be

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-20 Thread George Anchev via Bacula-users
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:51:46 -0400 Phil Stracchino wrote: > That would be "retension", as distinct from > "retention". Oh. You are right. So what is the answer? -- George ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

2018-09-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 9/20/18 7:40 AM, George Anchev via Bacula-users wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I have read there is a recommendation LTO-* > tapes to be physically rewind from start to finish and > back every now and then to release physical tension. > This tape retention has a different meaning from the > term