Hi John, On Donnerstag 10 Januar 2008 06:45:32 wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 AM, Falk Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and how you advice the changer wich volume you want to have in such a > > individual drive? > > If i understand your config correct you can making storage jobs directly > > to a device, if the job is bigger as one volume you have the problem that > > bacula cannot change the volume automaticly? Or is inside Bacula a lot of > > magic what recognice such a nice configuration and works then magically? > > The drives will still use the changer to load tapes when needed. For > about a year I ran it this way because bacula was not handling my 2 > drive changer correctly. It would often want to remove a tape from > drive 1 to place it in drive 0 which already had a different tape > loaded so it would have to unload that tape first and repeat this > cycle every night. Recently that problem was fixed and I use only the > changer resource for jobs. But things like label barcodes I can have > it run that on drive 1 instead of drive 0 if I want by specifying the > drive directly.
ok, for the records, the only right way to use a backup job on a x-Drive changer is over the changer device, not directly to a drive inside the changer. then we are on the next problem described in your parallel mail: > Follow the advice Arno gave about Prefer Mounted Volumes=no. A > possible undesirable side effect of that is that you will have several > tapes in your pool with the Append status. i will also go this way and make backups with 4 jobs concurrently on two Drives in one changer. I hope (not yet tested) 2 Jobs go automatically to every 1 Drive. What can i do (without user interaction) after the backup finished (all 4 jobs or accordingly the backup-catalog job finshed!) to set the volumes in state Append affected by the 4 or 5 jobs set to status Used? Has anybody a script/idea or alternative setting for this? Regards Falk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
