Arno Lehmann wrote:
> 14.02.2008 10:53, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>> We'd like to send some tapes every now and then to an external archive.
>> And make sure that doing a subsequent restore, bacula would think these
>> tapes are "gone", since the amount of work getting them back is generally
>> only for emergency situations.
>>
>> So I can just delete the Volumes from bacula and go on.
> 
> No need to delete the volumes from the catalog... just set their 
> status to something unusable... or, preferrably, disable them.

Am I sure that bacula wont use a disabled "Full-run" as basis for a 
subsequent Incremental run?

>> But if I by some chanche would like to get a file back, I'd like to be
>> able to tell which of the send volumes that I should "bscan" to get it
>> working.
>>
>> Is there a script somewhere that takes a "volumename" and give me a "tar
>> tvf-like" output of the complete volume content?
> 
> Some of the queries will help you there. Try the query command in 
> bconsole. You can redirect the output to a file, too.

Nice, I wasn't aware.

>> Og is there a different solution for this problem that I have overlooked?
> 
> I like to print the volume's contents (jobs listing, not each file in 
> my case) and store this printout with the tape in question. Of course, 
> having a CD with the source code of your current Bacula version there, 
> too, is also nice :-)

I'll have to remember that.

-- 
Jesper

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