"John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Media types are arbitrary. Two devices with the same media type, it is >> assumed, can share volumes. If they can't, the media type needs to be >> different. If not, they can be the same. >> > Exactly. I have two DLT drives on different bacula-sds on different > servers and they share the "DLT-IV" media type while my LTO2 > autochanger has the "LTO-2" media type. This way I can backup my DLT > tapes on one server/sd and restore it on the other server/sd and also > bacula will not try to share volumes from my LTO2 drives to my DLT > since they are different...
So it's actually not bacula choosing one of the sd's (because the restore job is tied to storage, which is tied to a device) but it's me writing a new restore job or doing a mod? So what is media type good for? Nobody would try to get a DDS-4 tape into a LTO2 slot? Yours sincerely, Eric
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