Having an autochanger with 4 drives I found that the algorithm to find the drive to use for an job is somewhat "suboptimal": The storagedaemon always uses the first available drive without considering the loaded tape.
This means: When I did a backup using concurrent jobs to use more then one drive the tapes are still loaded. The next job, even if it requires a tape already loaded in one drive, will use the first free drive which leads the following sequence: unload tape from drive 0 unload tape from drive 1 load tape to drive 0 (the one, which has been unloaded from drive 1) do job on drive 0 And worse: Today I had the problem, that the job which should run on drive 1 was held because of no available volume. So the drive was locked and the tape, which was needed for drive 0, was held in drive 1 blocking the job for drive 0. Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
