Bart Verwilst wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm trying to setup a Bacula to back up a remote server. I'm going to try and > explain my current setup and ultimate goal ;)
> Now, how do i proceed to automate the tape naming and such? When i created a > volume on bconsole with the add command, then tried to run a backup, it > nagged that the tape had the wrong label, and to insert a tape with another > name.. But it should just automatically overwrite the existing ones.. :$ > > I don't fully get the naming.. Should i manually give all 8 tapes a name, and > then add them through bconsole with the same names? But the naming i want > them to have is dynamic ( Label Format = "Test-$Day$Month$Year" ), so it'll > nag again that i don't have the correct named tape present, and to insert > it... :$ There is no mechanism for automatically deleting and relabelling tapes. I suggest just naming all your tapes once, numerically, and using them in rotation. If you need to restore something, Bacula will tell you which tape it needs anyway; the whole point of an automated backup system with a catalog database is that it keeps track of things like this for you. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users