----- "Arno Lehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 6/4/2007 3:54 PM, Lonny Selinger wrote: > > Setup: > > > > I have 2 DLT drives (a and b) set up to accept jobs dedicated to > each > > drive. Certain types of jobs go to a and certain types go to b and > > this seems to work fine. The problem I'm running into is having a > > drive request media in another drive. Both are valid for writing > and > > are in the same pool but for some reason I'll get media mount > > requests on drive a for the media in drive b and vic/versa. Anyone > > have any ideas why this might be? The two media ID's aren't full > and > > the upcoming jobs still show that a backup destined for drive b is > > going to request the media already mounted in a. > > Which version of Bacula? This should happen rarely since 1.38, I > believe, since in that version the catalog notices which device used a > > volume last.
I'm using a binary version for CentOS-5: 2.0.3-1 > > Suggestions greatly appreciated, Thanks! Lonny > > Different media types, but that has been suggested... the catalog > update > fpr the existing volumes is rather simple: In SQL, something like > 'UPDATE Media SET MediaType="a" WHERE <however you can most easily > select the volumes>;' is all you need. > > You could select by Volume name, with wildcards, or using a list of > volume IDs, for example. Luckily I only have a few assigned ID's right now so it wasn't a huge deal changing them by name: Before: mysql> select MediaID,MediaType from Media; +---------+-----------+ | MediaID | MediaType | +---------+-----------+ | 1 | DLT-IV | | 2 | DLT-IV | | 3 | DLT-IV | | 4 | DLT-IVa | | 5 | DLT-IVb | +---------+-----------+ mysql> UPDATE Media SET MediaType="DLT-IVa" WHERE MediaID=1; mysql> UPDATE Media SET MediaType="DLT-IVb" WHERE MediaID=2 OR MediaID=3; After: mysql> select MediaID,MediaType from Media; +---------+-----------+ | MediaID | MediaType | +---------+-----------+ | 1 | DLT-IVa | | 2 | DLT-IVb | | 3 | DLT-IVb | | 4 | DLT-IVa | | 5 | DLT-IVb | +---------+-----------+ Thanks for all the help guys. Hopefully this should be happy tonight :) > Arno > > -- > IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
