Label Tapes in an Autochanger

Before the tapes are usable by Bacula, they must have a Bacula label written onto them.

1. In the left menu, click: Storage and Media –> Tapes –> “QuantumLib1”.

2. Click the check box in the “Select” column for each tape you want to have labeled.

3. Click the “Label” icon - Note: If you do not have any cleaning tapes in the Autochanger, you can simply click the “Label” icon without selecting each tape.

4. This process can take some time as Bacula loads each tape in the Autochanger into the drive and writes a Bacula label to it.

5. When Bacula is finished labeling the tapes, click on Storage and Media –> Tapes –> “QuantumLib1” to get back to the Autochanger status page.

6. Notice that the tapes now have a slot listed, a certain number of bytes written to them (the Bacula label), a Media Type (QuantumLib1-LTO6) and have been added to the pool “Scratch”.

See also

Go back to:

• Determine Node Names for Drives and Autochanger

• Determine the Password for the Storage Daemon (SD)

• Create Drive Device(s) in the Storage Daemon (SD)

• Create an Autochanger in the Storage Daemon (SD)

• Test the Tape Drive Device With Btape Utility

• Create a Storage Resource in the Director (DIR) for Each Drive Device

• Configure Bweb to Manage an Autochanger and Its Drive Devices

• Check if Scratch Pool Exists

Go to:

• Configure a Pool for Full Backups

• Test a Full Backup Job Using a New Autochanger

Go back to the main Setting Up a Tape Autochanger Using Bweb page.

Go back to the ref:Tape Autochanger Setup<TapeAutochangerSetup> chapter.

Go back to the main Advanced Features Usage page.