On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> (Kern, I'll file this in bugs shortly) > > Probably not worth the effort. See my responses below.
> Bacula 1.38.11 and below do not permit doing a update slots at the same > time a drive is in use. Which is one reason update slots may have been required to be run against drive 1 instead of drive 0 > I've eliminated that restriction in 1.39.20 -- > thanks to input from Eric. Thanks The other reason for running update slots against drive 1 is that up to now "update slots" on the changer device only unloads drive 0, no matter which drive is specified >> 2: Running "update slots" against a drive instead of the changer results >> in all the tapes in the changer being linked to that drive instead of the >> changer: > > Bacula allows you to directly access the drive. If you do so, it is at your > own risk. I don't recommend it. If you don't put a direct access to a drive > in your bacula-dir.conf, you won't have this problem. I know the risk is there, but I believe that a lot of the problem can be mitigated by noticing the drives are associated with the changer and making sure that the database entries go against the changer rather than the individual drives within it. Note that this was happening due to the need to update slots following a tape change while drive0 was in use by a running backup. > Well, access only the Autochanger. I can add a few more words to the manual, > but it should already be documented (more or less). I consider this a > configuration error. Under normal circumstances I would only access the changer, however full backups take several days and tapes may need to be changed out several times while one or other drives are in use - and one can't unmount a drive while a backup is actively using it. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
