On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> I have a situation where we are about to add LTO3 drives to our changer,
>> which currently has LTO2 drives and media onboard.
>>
>> For obvious reasons I want to be able to use the LTO2 tapes in the LTO3
>> drives, but I also have to prevent any attempts to load LTO3 tapes into
>> the LTO2 drives.
>>
>> This is somewhat different to mixing completely incompatible media
>> types/drives in the changer.
>>
>> Kern, what are your thoughts?
>
> Currently, there is only one MediaType per Volume, so I don't see anyway to
> accomplish what you want -- automatically.
There only needs to be (and should be) one mediatype per volume.
What's needed is the ability to define multiple mediatypes per tape drive.
Something like:
(bacula-sd.conf)
Device {
Name = LTO3-drive #
.
Media Type = LTO-3
Media Type = LTO-2
.
}
Or "Media Type = LTO-3, LTO-2"
AB
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