Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement
We are using Bacula 2.2.7. Please upgrade. That is over two years old and will not be supported for bug fixes ... anymore. The problem is, a tape in one of the working pools gets I/O errors whenever tape library tried to access it. I could see that tape has some data on it. Now I wish to replace this tape with a new tape with new name. (As I feel, using new name would not make much difference or would it?). Please correct the proposed steps : Add new tape in the library. Move the tape and move it into one of the empty slots. Label the tape to the respective Volume Pool. The last step. A label barcodes will do. Ignore that bacula will ask about every tape in the library. Bacula will only label tapes that are not labeled. I generally at this step put the tapes in the Scratch pool. Now please state the steps to purge the susepcted tape. I would like to transfer the data on this tape onto the new tape. As I do not wish to break the data consistency within the volume pool. Correct me if I am wrong here. If you are totally getting rid of that tape never to use it again. delete volume if you want to try to use it again purge volume Both commands find all backup jobs on that volume and purge the jobs even if the job started on a different tape. John -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement
Hello, Thanks for your reply. Yes upgrade is a MUST and is in a planning stage. Yes I will not use the faulty tape anymore but as you said , if I use delete option to delete the volume tape totally, even though Bacula finds all the jobs on that tape , deletion will remove all the data contents on it. So data loss without any inconsistencies. Am I correct? Thanks, Sachin Holikar -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Montag, 2. August 2010 14:43 To: Holikar, Sachin (ext) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement We are using Bacula 2.2.7. Please upgrade. That is over two years old and will not be supported for bug fixes ... anymore. The problem is, a tape in one of the working pools gets I/O errors whenever tape library tried to access it. I could see that tape has some data on it. Now I wish to replace this tape with a new tape with new name. (As I feel, using new name would not make much difference or would it?). Please correct the proposed steps : Add new tape in the library. Move the tape and move it into one of the empty slots. Label the tape to the respective Volume Pool. The last step. A label barcodes will do. Ignore that bacula will ask about every tape in the library. Bacula will only label tapes that are not labeled. I generally at this step put the tapes in the Scratch pool. Now please state the steps to purge the susepcted tape. I would like to transfer the data on this tape onto the new tape. As I do not wish to break the data consistency within the volume pool. Correct me if I am wrong here. If you are totally getting rid of that tape never to use it again. delete volume if you want to try to use it again purge volume Both commands find all backup jobs on that volume and purge the jobs even if the job started on a different tape. John -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement
Thanks for your reply. Yes upgrade is a MUST and is in a planning stage. Yes I will not use the faulty tape anymore but as you said , if I use delete option to delete the volume tape totally, even though Bacula finds all the jobs on that tape , deletion will remove all the data contents on it. So data loss without any inconsistencies. Am I correct? It removes every job on that volume. Even ones started or continued on other tapes. Everything will be consistent. John -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement
You need to use the erase command to remove the data off of the tape. example: load the tape mtx -f /dev/sg3 load slotnum [drive number] tell the drive to erase the tape mt -f /dev/nst0 erase Make sure you are using the right devices by running the mtx inquiry. [r...@baculaserver ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg3 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'DELL' Product ID: 'PV-124T ' Revision: '0075' Attached Changer: No The correct devices should be listed in your bacula-sd.conf file. On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:20 +0200, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello, Thanks for your reply. Yes upgrade is a MUST and is in a planning stage. Yes I will not use the faulty tape anymore but as you said , if I use delete option to delete the volume tape totally, even though Bacula finds all the jobs on that tape , deletion will remove all the data contents on it. So data loss without any inconsistencies. Am I correct? Thanks, Sachin Holikar -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Montag, 2. August 2010 14:43 To: Holikar, Sachin (ext) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Tape replacement We are using Bacula 2.2.7. Please upgrade. That is over two years old and will not be supported for bug fixes ... anymore. The problem is, a tape in one of the working pools gets I/O errors whenever tape library tried to access it. I could see that tape has some data on it. Now I wish to replace this tape with a new tape with new name. (As I feel, using new name would not make much difference or would it?). Please correct the proposed steps : Add new tape in the library. Move the tape and move it into one of the empty slots. Label the tape to the respective Volume Pool. The last step. A label barcodes will do. Ignore that bacula will ask about every tape in the library. Bacula will only label tapes that are not labeled. I generally at this step put the tapes in the Scratch pool. Now please state the steps to purge the susepcted tape. I would like to transfer the data on this tape onto the new tape. As I do not wish to break the data consistency within the volume pool. Correct me if I am wrong here. If you are totally getting rid of that tape never to use it again. delete volume if you want to try to use it again purge volume Both commands find all backup jobs on that volume and purge the jobs even if the job started on a different tape. John -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
