>>>>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:09:47 +1300, Craig Miskell said: > > Hi, > I have a TL-2000 tape changer with two drives. I have two differential > jobs which start at the same time, on different > filesystems but the same client (also happens to be the same server as the > director/storage daemon). This is bacula 5.0.0 > > Both jobs interleave to the same tape (this is good IMO, although I don't > know which knob I tweaked to make that happen > :)), but one of the jobs first seems to claim a second tape, purge/recycle > it, log the following rows in jobmedia: > jobmediaid | jobid | mediaid | firstindex | lastindex | startfile | endfile > | startblock | endblock | volindex > > ------------+-------+---------+------------+-----------+-----------+---------+------------+----------+---------- > 12953 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 > | 0 | 0 | 1 > 12956 | 38 | 8 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 0 > | 1 | 14325 | 2 > 12957 | 38 | 8 | 37 | 50 | 1 | 1 > | 1 | 15499 | 3 > .... > > where mediaid 7 is the tape it just recycled and didn't use, and mediaid 8 is > the tape it's sharing with the other job. > > I'm happy for it to interleave, but I'm curious as to why it touches that > first tape (7) but then decides not to use it. > It's effectively recycling/nuking a backup that doesn't need to be, > requiring two tapes where one will do. Anyone > got any idea what's going on? Happy to file a bug if it is one, but don't > want to false report.
I suggest trying it in bacula 5.0.1 first. If that still fails, what does it report in the log say when it decides not to use the first tape? __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
