Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-26 Thread Robert LeBlanc
> => > This is something I raised at least 2-3 years ago. There's been no > => > apparent interest in solving the issue and likely won't be until > one of > => > the developers encounters the problem. > > I'd like to see that supported, but it's not critical...and there are > probably > a huge num

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-26 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:47:41 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Jesper Krogh on were: => Alan Brown wrote: => > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: => > => >> Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able => >> to share media with the old d

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-23 Thread Robert LeBlanc
> > Anyway, personally, I'd like to see Alans suggestions implemented, but > neither I nor any of my customers has a setup where that would be > needed... the original poster might think about how they could support > development here :-) > Believe me, I'd love to support the development of Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-23 Thread Jesper Krogh
Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > >> Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able >> to share media with the old drive, you should use the same media type. >> If not, you should have them be different. It would be best if you could >> ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-23 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 23.01.2009 15:03, Alan Brown wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> >>> Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able >>> to share media with the old drive, you should use the

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 23.01.2009 15:03, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > >> Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able >> to share media with the old drive, you should use the same media type. >> If not, you should have them be different. It would be

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able > to share media with the old drive, you should use the same media type. > If not, you should have them be different. It would be best if you could > make a supported media type

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-21 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert LeBlanc wrote: > We just added a new LTO4 drive to our Neo8000 with two existing LTO3 > drives. I thought I would just have to add the drive into the device > section of the SD with a new Media Label and things would be set to go. > Well, the di

[Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-21 Thread Robert LeBlanc
We just added a new LTO4 drive to our Neo8000 with two existing LTO3 drives. I thought I would just have to add the drive into the device section of the SD with a new Media Label and things would be set to go. Well, the director wants to know what media type the SD is. I've created a second SD bloc

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed drives in Autochanger

2008-01-16 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 16, 2008 11:08 AM, Robert LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have a Neo8000 with 2 LTO-3 drives. We are looking into the possibility > of adding 2 LTO-4 drives to it. Can Bacula handle two different types of > drives in the same autochanger? I don't need the LTO-4 drives to read the

[Bacula-users] Mixed drives in Autochanger

2008-01-16 Thread Robert LeBlanc
We have a Neo8000 with 2 LTO-3 drives. We are looking into the possibility of adding 2 LTO-4 drives to it. Can Bacula handle two different types of drives in the same autochanger? I donĀ¹t need the LTO-4 drives to read the LTO-3 tapes or anything. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences Computer Support Brigh