From: John D. <dre...@gm...> - 2008-08-01 13:22:20
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Keith Sudbury <ke...@ne...> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an LTO-3 drive on my server and currently my backups re only > about 100GB, and I could (and currently am fitting multiple backups on > one tape). I am obviously changing the tape each day etc (its not the > same tape) I have a different tape for mon - thursday and friday1 > friday2 etc > > But I am wondering if I should be using *Use Volume Once = Yes *which > would then mark the tape FULL after it has used it once. If I don't do > this I will eventually get to a day when only half a backup fits on the > end? > * > *Or is it fine to leave more than one backup on a tape? > It is fine. I have had > 30 backups on a single LTO2 tape. > > I am ejecting my tapes with "umount LTO-3" is this ok? or should I be > using "release LTO-3" and then doing umount? > Release is better because it does not remove the drive from bacula's control so that if you reinsert the tape you will not need to mount it. If you umount a tape bacula will not have control of the tape drive until you issue a mount command inside of bacula. > > Does bacula rewind the tape if i use release? > Release and unmount both eject the tape so the drive will have to rewind the tape being that LTO media is single reel and the drive contains the second reel. > Will it cause a problem if I use release and have multiple backups on a > single tape? > You will have to reinsert the tape in the drive before the next backup. John |