Hi,

On 4/19/2007 11:41 AM, Falk Sauer wrote:
> Hi Arno,
> 
> On Thursday 19 April 2007 writes Arno Lehmann:
>> On 4/19/2007 10:40 AM, Falk Sauer wrote:
> 
>>> Bacula 2-0-3 from rpm, os10.2 32bit x86,
>>> adic scalar24 with 2 SDLT320, NTEC IceBox over SCSI
>>>
>>> every time if a File-volume was created automatically, the inchanger flag
>>> is set to 0, if a File-volume is created manually the inchanger flag is
>>> set to 1.
>>>
>>> 1) has this any  spillover?
>> Hmm. I don't think so - you'd have noticed that by now :-)
> 
> i read this list over few days, i didn't read also over them.

Oh, I rather thought that during backup operations you'd have noticed 
problems by now...

>>> 2) is any badly influence from this to the prune logic imaginable?
>> I don't think so, too. Actually, it might influence the order in which
>> volumes are reused - because volumes with InChanger=1 are preferred -
>> but that *should* happen only with autochanger devices. File storage
>> usually is not an autochanger, and works a little different, as far as I
>> know (I'm not using file storage here, and don't have access to an
>> installation that does, at the moment).
>>
>> Anyway, I'm running setups with file volumes at customers sites, and
>> they simply work. Typically, there is a mixture of automatically and
>> manually created volumes, and the volumes are reused as I expect, so I
>> think it's safe to say you don't have to worry :-)
> 
> by an tape-volume in my setting the inchanger-flag _must_ set to 1 if i label 
> a tape, thats right.
> 
>>> If 2 == yes then we must set this flag manually to the right value, which
>>> is the 'right' value in this case?
>> I'd suggest to do nothing now, and in case you notice that volumes with
>> InChanger=0 are NOT reused, you report this. Then we'll discuss if this
>> is a bug or needs a different configuration :-)
>>
> 
> ok i've controlled the logs from the last night and there was a first reusing 
> of file-volume with inchanger-flag=0, i think too that's works.

Good.

> I can not 
> imagine for what bacula this flag can use by an file-volume. A file-volume 
> can not sooo easy going outside of the storage as a tape. ;-)

There are ways... especially when you use removable disk drives.

> I think its better the flag is by an file-volume every time set to 0, thats 
> suppressed konfusion.

Quite right, but as everything works correctly I'd consider this purely 
cosmetic.

> regards
>    Falk

Arno

> 
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