Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 31 July 2006 19:49, Birger Blixt wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > What OS are you using? > > > > > I forgot to write that, sorry. > > At home I run Suse 9.3 at my server, and 10.0 , 10.1 as clients, > and have no problems to build my own binaries or install rpm's that > other shar

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Birger Blixt
Kern Sibbald wrote: > > What OS are you using? > > I forgot to write that, sorry. At home I run Suse 9.3 at my server, and 10.0 , 10.1 as clients, and have no problems to build my own binaries or install rpm's that other share. The machine at my work is a retired Sun 450 , Solaris8 , since I c

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 31 July 2006 16:33, Robert W Hartzell wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 31 July 2006 12:41, Birger Blixt wrote: > >> On 2006-07-28 14:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> Well, If I start bacula without any tapes loaded, then bacula-sd will loop > > for > >> about one hour / drive b

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Robert W Hartzell
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 31 July 2006 12:41, Birger Blixt wrote: >> On 2006-07-28 14:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Well, If I start bacula without any tapes loaded, then bacula-sd will loop > for >> about one hour / drive before I can connect to it, so I make sure the drive > has >> tapes b

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 31 July 2006 13:00, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> One of the more annoying problems is that it will insist on recycling > >> tapes which are not in the changer, then block on loading them, when there > >> are purged recycling-candidate tapes availab

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 31 July 2006 12:41, Birger Blixt wrote: > On 2006-07-28 14:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > > As long as Bacula is using all the drives exclusively and you start with no > > tape in any drive, and you are using the appropriate Autochanger resource, > > Bacula will know what is tape in

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> One of the more annoying problems is that it will insist on recycling >> tapes which are not in the changer, then block on loading them, when there >> are purged recycling-candidate tapes available in the changer. > > Yes, this is probably to be expected

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-31 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-07-28 14:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > As long as Bacula is using all the drives exclusively and you start with no > tape in any drive, and you are using the appropriate Autochanger resource, > Bacula will know what is tape in all the drives. Well, If I start bacula without any tapes loa

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please always copy the list. Hopefully someone will explain it to you. On Friday 28 July 2006 22:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the message dated: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:46:23 +0200, > The pithy ruminations from Kern Sibbald on > were: > => On Friday 28 July 2006 18:01, Alan Brown wrote: > =

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 July 2006 18:01, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > There are certain limitations in version 1.38.x, that are explained in the > > release notes I think -- mainly, if a tape is in drive 2 and Bacula is > > writing on drive 1 and then wants to write on t

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > There are certain limitations in version 1.38.x, that are explained in the > release notes I think -- mainly, if a tape is in drive 2 and Bacula is > writing on drive 1 and then wants to write on the tape that is in drive 2, it > will unload it from drive

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 July 2006 12:26, Birger Blixt wrote: > On 2006-07-26 10:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > > On many non-autochanger drives, doing an eject requires an explicit "load" > > command, and Bacula never uses that command (except in btape). I recommend > > avoiding ejecting except if requ

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-07-26 10:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On many non-autochanger drives, doing an eject requires an explicit "load" > command, and Bacula never uses that command (except in btape). I recommend > avoiding ejecting except if required. > Yeas, but that is not at all what I wrote, the proble

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Tuesday 25 July 2006 14:57, Birger Blixt wrote: > On 2006-07-20 11:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Ah, nice. That is the kind of feedback that I love :-) > > > > And, yes, the directive names are not always terribly logical or descriptive. > > > > On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:23, Birger Bl

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-20 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-07-19 16:42, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Look at the "Prefer Mounted Drives" directive. > Thanks Kern, that was it, I had it set to yes :-( Now all 4 tapes is running at the same time :-) /birre - Take Surveys. Earn Cas

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-19 Thread Kern Sibbald
Look at the "Prefer Mounted Drives" directive. On Wednesday 19 July 2006 14:17, Birger Blixt wrote: > Hi! > > I have an Autochanger with 4 drives: > Autochanger { >Name = "ADIC-480" >Device = DRIVE0, DRIVE1, DRIVE2, DRIVE3 >Changer Device = /dev/changer >Changer Command = "/opt/loc

[Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-19 Thread Birger Blixt
Hi! I have an Autochanger with 4 drives: Autochanger { Name = "ADIC-480" Device = DRIVE0, DRIVE1, DRIVE2, DRIVE3 Changer Device = /dev/changer Changer Command = "/opt/local/etc/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" } In the past I was using 4 drives that was using the same mtx-changer script wi