Because on older tape drives (DDS, DLT, ...) one EOF means End of File;
two consecutive EOF marks with nothing between means End of Data.
On all modern drives only one EOF is necessary.
On 05/06/2017 04:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Apr 18, 2017, at 4:45 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>>
>> 3. Mou
> On Apr 18, 2017, at 4:45 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
> 3. Mount each tape one at a time, and with mt rewind the tape and write
> two EOF marks.
Why two EOF marks?
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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with IBM Labels
I already wrote this
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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with IBM Labels
I already wrote this previously: the
I already wrote this previously: the error message produced by Bacula
indicates that the user has enabled ANSI volume labels. This is unusual
and generally not needed unless you have multiple different backup/other
programs using the tapes. In any case, if you explicitly enable this
ANSI tape
Am 18.04.2017 um 04:00 schrieb Jim Richardson:
> I must be missing something stupid. I am using IBM barcode labels on
> LTO7 tapes. Bacula labeled my media, but I am unable to start backup
> job due to error Fatal error: ansi_label.c:296 ANSI Volume label name
> "09L7" longer than 6 chars.
J
Hello,
I suspect that you have mistaken using IBM barcode labels (all LTO
labels are the same format), and ANSI/IBM tape labels.
Barcode labels are physical stickers that are put on a cartridge so that
the barcode scanner in your autochanger can identify the tape name.
Within Bacula itself the
Hello,
I must be missing something stupid. I am using IBM barcode labels on LTO7
tapes. Bacula labeled my media, but I am unable to start backup job due to
error Fatal error: ansi_label.c:296 ANSI Volume label name "09L7" longer
than 6 chars.
BConsole Steps:
*label barcodes
*- snip -*
*u
