On Saturday 18 February 2006 00:35, Ian Levesque wrote: > If you search the list archive, you'll see that I documented similar > behavior a few weeks ago. I submitted a bug report that apparently > may have been fixed, though a patch has not yet been issued. > > http://bugs.bacula.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000543
A temporary work around for this bug (I'm not 100% sure it pertains to the problems described below) is to start the second job after the first job has grabbed the Volume. This works around the "race" condition where two jobs lock on to the same volume name. > > Cheers, > Ian > > On Feb 17, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Lee, Raymond wrote: > > I have a similar problem to Chris'. I have an autochanger with 2 > > drives. My conf files are similar to Chris' except that my > > Director resource in bacula-dir.conf has Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20. > > > > When I run two jobs concurrently, the status of the second job is > > "waiting for an appendable Volume", and the status of the second > > drive becomes "Device is BLOCKED waiting for media." I tried to > > mount another tape into the second drive from bconsole, but nothing > > happened. > > > > When the first job finished, the autochanger took the tape from > > drive1, inserted it into drive2, and proceeded to run the second job. > > > > I only have one Pool set up. Do I need to create another one and > > make one job run from Pool1 and the other job run from Pool2? > > > > Please let me know if you'd like to see some conf file snippets. > > > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson > > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:25 PM > > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Bacula-users] multiple tape drives at once not working > > properly > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a tape library with four drives in it, and would like to use > > all four drives at once, rather than just one of the drives. I’ve > > read through archives on this email list, as well as the bacula > > documentation, and followed the recommendations on how to do this, > > but it doesn’t seem to be working. When I check the director’s > > status, one job is running while the other jobs say they’re > > “waiting on max Storage jobs.” Only one drive is being used in the > > tape library. > > > > > > > > In my bacula-dir.conf, I set “Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4” in the > > Director resource, and “Prefer Mounted Volumes = no” for the > > JobDefs resource. In my bacula-sd.conf, I set “Maximum Concurrent > > Jobs = 20” for the Storage resource. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts on what’s not configured properly? > > > > > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd________________________________________ >_______ Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
