On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: This solution solved the problem, thanks very much: I defined the media type for the tape drive in one of the autoloaders to be LTO-4, leaving the other one as LTO-3 and now I can restore from backups made to either autoloader.
Thanks again, Dirk > Hello, > > On Friday 28 July 2006 22:56, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: >> I'm new to bacula and am setting bacula up for backing up a large >> raidserver. I have 2 7-slot (single drive) Exabyte Magnum LTO-3 >> autoloaders connected to the server. I've gone through the basic setup >> and tested the tapes and autoloaders for general functionality and >> everything seems good. I've labelled tapes for each autoloader and put in >> corresponding pools and defined jobs that will backup to each autoloader. >> I've run a few jobs and both autoloaders seem to be correctly used. >> However I went to test restoring what was backed up and one of my restore >> test jobs keeps trying to use the wrong autoloader and so complains that >> it can't find the tape. Backups that went to autoloader 1 can be restored >> OK, but backups where the tapes are in autoloader 2 fail because it seems >> it will only try to use autoloader 1, even though I've said the storage >> device should be autoloader 2 and the backup job wrote to the tapes in >> autoloader 2. >> >> I'm running bacula-1.38.11 on Mandriva 2006 x86_64. I'm also only backing >> up the local server. > > On bacula 1.38 and below, the Storage resource that is used is determined by > the MediaType. If you have two Storage devices using the same MediaType, > Bacula will freely choose either one (probably the first resource in your > bacula-dir.conf file). > > So, you will probably have better luck if you assign different MediaTypes to > the two autochangers. > > Hopefully this problem is fixed in 1.39, though I haven't yet had the time to > test it. > >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
