Thank You.
> because bacula has a very complex tape scheduling routines...
Right, and that confuses an (ex-)Amanda user like me...
> It asks for a specific tape but you can give it any appendable tape
> from the pool that it is using or a tape from the Scratch pool (see
> the docs on the Scratch pool)
O.K., that really helps a lot, because with all this 'complex
scheduling' I was not sure at all, if there is some sort of tape order
at all...
Thanks again for all your help!
Ralf
John Drescher schrieb:
> On 7/31/07, Ralf Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I do not believe the DB has this information as this is handled by the
>>> scheduler while bacula is running. Although it may be possible for you
>>> to query the list of jobs to be run then try to figure out what tape
>>> would be needed.
>> But the scheduler has to get his info from somewhere or somebody...
>>
> I believe it figures this out only when a tape is needed for a job
> because bacula has a very complex tape scheduling routines that allow
> the user to prefer writable tapes from the same pool in the drives and
> autoloaders versus selecting a different tape from the pool that is
> not in the drive or autoloader.
>
>>> For me I have never thought of this because I really do not need this
>>> feature. I have a 24 tape LTO2 library which always has a few tapes in
>>> the Scratch pool and for my single drives I use a single pool with no
>>> time restrictions on volume usage so about 1 time every 2 weeks I need
>>> to switch tapes in the morning. And obviously my disk volumes do not
>>> need switching.
>> When Bacula complains about a full tape, does it ask for a "new" one, a
>> specific one or 'any' tape? An answer to this question would probably
>> help me to understand bacula's tape handling, it's so different from
>> Amanda's ...
>>
> It asks for a specific tape but you can give it any appendable tape
> from the pool that it is using or a tape from the Scratch pool (see
> the docs on the Scratch pool)
>
> John
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