Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2008 02:14:54 Shad L. Lords wrote: >> What you end up with is MA3001 and MA3002 are full, MA3003 is < 50% >> full, MA3004 is < 1% full (catalog in my case). I would have expected >> Job 4 to swap MA3003 back to Drive 0 and write the data there before >> starting a new volume. > > Well, what would probably clarify this is to have debug level 200 output from > the SD we could then see exactly what the Director was returning to job 4 as > a Volume or why the SD decided it could not use MA3003 for job 4.
I'll see if I can get this for you on 2.4.2 (assuming that it still happens). > Despite the fact that it did not do what you expected, it doesn't sound like > it really did anything wrong. It may just be one of those cases that could > use optimization, and there are a lot of them, but my first priority is to > get it working correctly, then hopefully we can optimize the swapping of > drives to be a minimum, and finally in some later version we can dynamically > switch drives and avoid swapping altogether, which is where I really want to > go :-) The only concern I have is that a tape gets recycled/reused quicker then it should. All the data does get backed up and is accessible but data that used to be on the tape is no longer available. -Shad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
