Re: [Bacula-users] How change the MedId for an exist Volume

[Martin S. <ma...@li...>]

>>>>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:47:32 -0500, Bob Hetzel said:
> 
> > From: Martin Simmons <ma...@li...>
> 
> >>>>>> >>>>> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:19:02 -0200, Rodrigo N de Castro Fernandes said:
> >> >
> >> > I would like to know how to change the MediaId from a VolumeName.
> >> > Just for backup Media/Volume sort organization.
> >> >
> >> > Can somebody help me? Is it possible? Is it recommended?
> > It isn't recommended, but you could do it with some SQL commands if you are
> > very careful.
> >
> > Purge the volume first, otherwise you will need to update the jobmedia table
> > as well.  You may need to adjust the SQL sequence that controls the automatic
> > numbering of new volumes as well, if you new MediaId is higher.  There may be
> > other problems that I haven't though about...
> >
> > __Martin
> 
> I'm not 100% sure what the original poster's goal was but in my case my 
> goal was to change how bacula sorts when you do a 'list volumes'.  It sorts 
> by default by MediaId which is kinda unhelpful to those of us that use 
> actual bar-coded tapes.  The MediaId is generated when the volume is first 
> inserted into the catalog, but if the autochanger picks up the tapes in the 
> wrong order you're left with that odd sorting.  I tried to update the 
> tables directly for a while but eventually I decided it was too big a pain 
> to wait for a tape to be Scratch (I presume you meant Prune not Purge, by 
> the way).

No, I did mean Purge, becayse Prune might leave some jobmedia entries.
Maximum automatic destruction before manually wrecking the catalog with SQL
commands :-)

__Martin