Hi, On 2/21/2007 11:52 AM, HAWKER, Dan (external) wrote: > > Hi All, > > Am presently in the midst of configuring Bacula to backup some > aggregated data from a few servers to tape. All works fine, however am > slightly confused wrt cleaning tapes. > > According to the manual you can assign a cleaning prefix, however as I > understand this is only useful for autochangers with barcodes.
Right. > So how do you create a cleaning job??? I don't. > For instance I'd like to assign > slot6 as a cleaning slot, and then create a *CleaningJob* that loads and > accesses the cleaning tape, once a week. Say on Sunday evening when > nothing should be happening. No. I would not do this. Modern tape drives can decide themselves when they need to get cleaned. Cleaning more often than strictly necessary will no only use up the cleaning cartridge but might also damage your tape drive and invalidate its warranty. Autochangers can usually manage cleaning on their own - you dedicate one slot to the cleaning tape, and everything else happens automatically. I don't know if tis interferes witch Baculas operation, though - I don't operate an autochanger like that. > Is this supported in Bacula, or is it just easier/better to have a quick > and dirty script run from cron, that uses mtx to load and then unload > the tape??? There is a feature request open regarding better tape cleaning management... until that is implemented, I do that manually. Whenever there is a tapealert (which you can get into Baculas job report) or a drive failure, it's time for manual intervention. Not really a serious problem, because in a clean environment you won't have to clean your drives very often. And you wouldn't want to operate a modern tape drive in a dusty environment :-) Arno > TIA > > Dan > -- > > Dan Hawker > Linux System Administrator > Astrium > http://www.astrium.eads.net > > -- > > This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or > privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. > If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, > do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose > or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any > attachments from your system. > Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus > corrupted, altered or falsified. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 > Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, > England > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
