Re: [Bacula-users] "suboptimal" usage of autochanger with multiple drives

2007-02-14 Thread John Drescher
On 2/14/07, Andreas Helmcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having an autochanger with 4 drives I found that the algorithm to find > the drive to use for an job is somewhat "suboptimal": > The storagedaemon always uses the first available drive without > considering the loaded tape. > > This means: Wh

Re: [Bacula-users] "suboptimal" usage of autochanger with multiple drives

2007-02-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Andreas Helmcke wrote: > And worse: > Today I had the problem, that the job which should run on drive 1 was > held because of no available volume. So the drive was locked and the > tape, which was needed for drive 0, was held in drive 1 blocking the job > for drive 0. This ha

[Bacula-users] "suboptimal" usage of autochanger with multiple drives

2007-02-14 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Having an autochanger with 4 drives I found that the algorithm to find the drive to use for an job is somewhat "suboptimal": The storagedaemon always uses the first available drive without considering the loaded tape. This means: When I did a backup using concurrent jobs to use more then one drive