Re: [Bacula-users] Reading DLT tapes in SDLT drive

[Simone C. <neg...@gm...>]

Never tried, but since the media type is only a label in the database, you
did correctly and should be able to read them.... does it work?

Regards,
--Simone


On 22 August 2014 18:39, Dan Langille <da...@la...> wrote:

> I have an SDLT tape library and many old DLT tapes created on my previous
> library.
>
> SDLT can read DLT.  I wanted to test that today.  The issue: Media Type
>
> When attempting to restore, I get:
>
> 22-Aug 16:21 crey-sd JobId 183011: acquire.c:121 Changing read device.
> Want Media Type="DLT" have=“SDLT”
>
> To avoid that, I did: update media set mediatype = 'SDLT' where volumename
> = 'ETU007’;
>
> Anyone done similar?
>
> I’m using Version: 5.2.12 on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE
>
> —
> Dan Langille
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