On Friday 28 July 2006 18:01, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > There are certain limitations in version 1.38.x, that are explained in the > > release notes I think -- mainly, if a tape is in drive 2 and Bacula is > > writing on drive 1 and then wants to write on the tape that is in drive 2, it > > will unload it from drive 2 and load it into drive 1 -- it works, but is not > > optimal. > > One of the more annoying problems is that it will insist on recycling > tapes which are not in the changer, then block on loading them, when there > are purged recycling-candidate tapes available in the changer.
Yes, this is probably to be expected since the current algorithm always recycles the oldest volumes. I can think of two possible solutions: 1. Implement a new directive (horrors) that says recycle only InChanger volumes. 2. Mark all volumes that are not in the changer as Disabled, then they will not take part in the recycle algorithm -- at least when the code is finally written, since currently very few of the SQL statements are Enable/Disable aware (new feature of 1.39). Currently, you could change the VolStatus to something like Archive or Read-Only. > > AB > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
