Thanks again for your detailed answer. I will try it. What I tried to say was this: I use bacula since 3 years. And it worked all the time as I discribed below. I forgot the date and the release when it stopped working ...
Thomas Am Montag Mai 29 2006 22:45 schrieb James P. Kinney III: > On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 16:01 +0200, Thomas Sturm wrote: > > > It seems to me it is working as designed. The update slots is needed > > > after any change in the autoloader slot so the SD knows what tapes (and > > > pools, etc) are available. If tapes are removed and new ones inserted, > > > eject and load command have no information passed about which tapes are > > > now in the slots. > > > > You are right, without update slots the the SD doesn't know about which > > tapes are inserted. But has the SD to know? - When the backup starts it > > "knows" about which Slot (in this case 8) to load. I think, this should > > be enough. When the tape is loaded, it could read the label. There is no > > need to ask ME to load the Tape in slot 8. Am I right? > > It would be a "feature add" I think, if the SD would automatically scan > the slots and determine the status. But it's sort of like a hard drive > that was not closed properly before the system was shut down. It really > has to scan the slots and see what's there before it can "know" which > slots to work with. There just isn't a good way that is cross-drive > (etc.) to tell the changer what tape has been inserted in a magazine or > manual tape exchange. > > What you might want to look at is using the "update slots=2-4,7,10" > which will cause bacula to read the tape label on the tapes in slots > 2,3,4,7 & 10. If you have an autochanger with barcodes (very nice!), you > can do this with just "update slots" and it will read the barcodes and > know where all the tapes are. _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
