Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello Alan, > > Thanks for the bounty. > > Did your wishlist come in the form of Feature Requests?
Not yet. We did discuss it in private email a few months back though/ > Concerning your request for Bacula to cycle through drives. The biggest > problem with this, aside from the fact that I believe it is already > implemented, is that it will create total chaos, unless someone comes up with > a very smart algorithm that I am currently unaware of. For example, take the > simple case of 1 Job and 2 drives: Bacula really should notice that a wanted tape is already in drive X and use that. It should also look for empty drives when a pool tape is needed but isn't currently mounted The situation here is that I have 7 pools, 7 LTO5 drives, but Bacula keeps taking tapes in/out of drive 0-2 because the pools are never all active at once, > If you really do want to rotate the drives that are used, set "Prefer mounted > Volumes = no" that was the purpose of that directive. The problem with doing that is that I end up with several tapes being appended in one pool. As I close tapes after a week regardless of how much is on them this can lead to a lot of wastage given we're only managing to regularly fill tapes in one of the pools at the moment (1.5Tb raw tape capacity) > When there are multiple drives working at the same time, Bacula does have an > algorithm that attempts to put the next job on the least used (number of > jobs) > drive. Whether it works or not is hard to know because it is not easy to run > simulations. It's not working. See my comment above. Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
