On 2/14/07, Andreas Helmcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > I had this a lot with 1.38.X so I set my jobs so to use the drives instead of the changer so that for the most part this kind of swapping does not happen much.
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