On Wednesday 30 July 2008 20:14:24 Shad L. Lords wrote: > 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.
This doesn't make any sense to me unless you are counting on having data on a tape after the retention period is up, which is not a good way of running backups. > > -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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
