On Friday 07 April 2006 20:37, Dibon Pierre wrote:
> Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > There was indeed a change in 1.38.x (perhaps as you say 1.38.6).
>
> However, it
>
> > applies only if the InChanger flag is set in the Media record,
>
> which means
>
> > that in principle we are dealing with an Autochanger, and in that
>
> case, I
>
> > believe that the behavior is correct.
> >
> > There is no way to disable the new behavior except by setting the
>
> InChanger
>
> > flag in each Volume to zero.
>
> thanks for your answer but I can't say that i really understand the
> new way
>
> for me the first was the good way : imagine you have a pool big
> enough to do for example 3 full backup during 3 weeks with a volume
> retention of 3 weeks, with the first alogrithm when the data remain
> relatively constant the volumes are recycled normally each 3 weeks,
> if the amount of data is growing enough (for any reason ) to reach
> the capacity of the pool before the end of retention period of the
> oldest volume then bacula will pick a tape in the scratch pool an
> then continue working from weeks to weeks with the second algorithm
> bacula will pick and pick tapes in the
> scratch pools to the end of its capacity without checking the
> retention date of the normal pool killing the beautifull prevision
> you make ? this is particularly critical if the goal is to optimise
> the utilisation of a minimal number of tapes in the autochanger in
> order to anticipate the future growth of datas
>
> is there a thing I misunderstand
I think you should discuss this with the users who requested this feature. It
was openly discussed on this list some time ago, and had what seemed to me to
be rather unanimous agreement.
>
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Best regards,
Kern
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