Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:13, John Drescher wrote: >> One >> other feature I would like to see is if there are any empty drives >> when starting a job and none of the correct pools are loaded choose >> the empty drive instead of any unloading media. > > I believe this is how it currently functions but am not 100% sure. >
No, as far as I have seen it isn't. When there is no usable tape loaded bacula uses the first unused drive unloading the tape, even if there are drives which are empty. Furthermore I would like to see bacula to use the available drives more evenly. I have 4 drives and at most three concurrent jobs. So the first drive is the most used, while the fourth drive almost never will be used. As a first thought I'd like to see a drive selection schema like: 1. If a useable tape is already loaded; use this drive. 2. Use an empty drive. 3. Use the drive with the lowest "usage time". As far as I can see only step 1 is implemented in V2.1.10. Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
