> So to summarize my impressions: > There *might* be a bug in the volume-selection-code of bacula which exists at > least from V1.38 up to V2.1.10beta which leads sometimes to selecting the > wrong volume for a job. > As far as I can tell (but my vision might be clouded by the circumstance, that > I am using a multidrive autochanger myself) is, that this bug shows his head > more often (or only) when using a (multidrive) autochanger. > By now there are far, far to many if's, might's, and more subjunctives to file > a bug report. > I believe the problem is that if you have prefer mounted volumes on with multidrive autochanger bacula ends up using only the first drive in the changer unless you force jobs to the individual drives. If you have prefer mounted volumes off bacula will pick any tape in the pool when running jobs. I would say that both results are not what a user of a multitape changer would want.
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