In response to Nicholas Accad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have been using bacula for some time now, and I am having an .. um.. > interesting situation. > I am currently using 1.38.9, compiled from source on a Debian/Sarge > machine. > > I have ~50 clients, each client has its own job, so 50+ jobs. > > If I set the Volume Use Duration to anything other than 0 (zero), the > Volume status > is set to "Used" after the first job is run, which - after reading the > manual - is the > expected behaviour.
You are doing something wrong. I have more than one system with VolumeUseDuration set to 24 hours, so it uses a new tape each day. It sounds like you've incidentally got another setting causing this -- isn't there a MaxJobsPerVolume or similar setting? > But this is not what I want since I want all my jobs to go on the same > tape. > > Sooo. I set the Volume Use Duration to 0 (zero), and this lets all my > jobs > go to the same tape, YES, SUCCESS, CHAMPAGNE...etc > > Except, the tape status is set to "Append" after the last job is done, > now > this is not what I want at all, this leaves the door wide open for > problems. What problems? This is expected. The volume will be appendable until some circumstance changes that status. > So to summarize: > > 1. Use Duration > 0, only 1 job per volume, bad Again, this is not expected. Can you provide more details of your setup? I suspect one of two things: 1) Either you're setting this value so low that it expires before the first job is finished. 2) Or some other setting is kicking in first. > 2. Use Duration = 0, all jobs on the same volume, status = Append, also > bad What is it you're trying to accomplish? I'm unclear as to what it is you want to happen. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
