Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:37:48 +1100 Norberto Meijome numard...@gmail.com wrote: Any time you add/remove tapes from the tape library, you need to do 'update slots' and 'label barcodes' in bacula. Does that not behave as you expect? -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu @ Dan, @ Alex, yes, it does what I want - almost. Just that with only 1 drive, I need to have no jobs running in order to be able to label the tapes. Otherwise, as soon as one tape is available, the job will pick it up and put on hold the label task. automount off helps, but that's when I experienced the crash - i haven't had a chance to try to reproduce the issue. On the other hand, if I could put a job on hold / paused state, it would solve this issue. i think. B Hi, Yes, if you only have one drive, you need to have no jobs running in order to do 'update slots' or 'label barcodes'. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
Yes, if you only have one drive, you need to have no jobs running in order to do 'update slots' or 'label barcodes'. I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You can not label barcodes however. John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
John Drescher wrote: I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You can not label barcodes however. I can confirm this, as I did this a couple of days ago, although watch out for the size of the emailed job report, which for me was just under 4MB and contained thousands of an error message generated presumably while the update was occuring, but it contined on fine afterwards. Regards, Richard -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
Hi everyone,
We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are
barcoded.
I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. I would like to be
able to just insert new tapes and let bacula automatically label them using
the barcode read from the tape.
Is this possible, and if so, how ?
Running
Version: 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
thanks!!
[1] sometimes it throws some errors, tape i/o,etc, not sure it is related to
bacula, even though it crashed bacula-sd once or twice
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Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are barcoded. I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I have had it label. When I add new tapes, I wait 5 minutes for my 24 slot changer to stop doing inventory then after that I issue update slots since I changed tapes. After that I run label barcodes and put all new tapes in the Scratch pool. I would like to be able to just insert new tapes and let bacula automatically label them using the barcode read from the tape. Is this possible, and if so, how ? I am not sure of that. Some users have done this but I do not know the details. Running Version: 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat thanks!! [1] sometimes it throws some errors, tape i/o,etc, not sure it is related to bacula, even though it crashed bacula-sd once or twice The I/O read error on unused tapes is not an error. This is actually normal behavior. As for crashing bacula-sd, I have never had that happen on a label barcodes. John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
On 12 March 2010 12:44, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes
are
barcoded.
I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1].
This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I
have had it label. When I add new tapes, I wait 5 minutes for my 24
slot changer to stop doing inventory then after that I issue update
slots since I changed tapes. After that I run label barcodes and put
all new tapes in the Scratch pool.
yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs
didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong.
The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not, 4
through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same all the
time. Not earth shattering, but non-automatic.
I would like to be
able to just insert new tapes and let bacula automatically label them
using
the barcode read from the tape.
Is this possible, and if so, how ?
I am not sure of that. Some users have done this but I do not know the
details.
do you have any pointers?
Running
Version: 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
thanks!!
[1] sometimes it throws some errors, tape i/o,etc, not sure it is related
to
bacula, even though it crashed bacula-sd once or twice
The I/O read error on unused tapes is not an error. This is actually
normal behavior.
As for crashing bacula-sd, I have never had that
happen on a label barcodes.
+1 . hasn't happened that much, just once or twice (once definitely related
to this, the other i dont recall)
thx!!
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Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong. The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not, 4 through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same all the time. Not earth shattering, but non-automatic. If it is a timing issue then you need to fix your mtx-changer script (to work with your changer) because your backups will have the same problem as label barcodes. Did you run the autochanger tests that are described in the manual? John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?
On 12 March 2010 13:04, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the
msgs
didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be
wrong.
The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not, 4
through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same all
the
time. Not earth shattering, but non-automatic.
If it is a timing issue then you need to fix your mtx-changer script
(to work with your changer) because your backups will have the same
problem as label barcodes.
Did you run the autochanger tests that are described in the manual?
John
thanks for the pointer, I'll look into that. I haven't seen any errors from
the backups, so it may all be in my imagination.
thanks again,
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