Hello. I have a doubt about the BareOS Scratch pool.
According to manual, "when Bareos needs a new Volume for writing and it cannot find one, it will look in the Scratch pool, and if it finds an available Volume, it will move it out of the Scratch pool into the Pool currently being used by the job". So far so good. I've tried it and it works perfectly for me. But due to the large size that the catalog is taking (and the need to maintain the file list for many, many years), I decided to try a new configuration, in which I contain multiple catalogs instead of just one. Then, after a clean installation, and already configured about six different catalogs, with a few blank tapes in the autochanger, my first problem starts with the label barcode command. BareOS no longer only asks for the pool to send the new tapes to, but in addition to that, it requires you to indicate which catalog to use. I would have thought that since the Scratch pool is present in all the catalogs, BareOS would have some capacity to "share" that particular pool with all the catalogs. But then I see that this is not the case. Only one Scratch pool of a single catalog contains all the new volumes / tapes, and therefore, I can only use those tapes in that particular catalog. So, how can I do to have all the tapes available, regardless of the catalog I'm using? It should be managed "manually", deciding which ones manually send tapes which Scratch pool which catalog? And since we are, how can I "move" a tape from a pool Scratch from one catalog to the Scratch pool from another catalog? (apparently, label and relabel are not useful for this purpose once they have been used with a particular catalog). If anyone could help me with this, I would appreciate it a lot. Regards! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
