[originally posted privately, now moving to the list] > On Monday 25 September 2006 02:13 am, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Sunday 24 September 2006 20:59, Michael Brennen wrote: > > > > Yesterday midday, late evening in Europe, I pulled the latest CVS and > > saw that a number of files in /src had been updated. I installed the > > CVS version and it does appear to be working better. At least I am not > > getting the autochanger control faults that I was last week when I sent > > my log file. > > Well, that is good news. > > > What does seem to be happening is that only the first drive is being > > used. I've included below a couple of jobs that show the tapes being > > changed out on drive 0, not using the others. Below those I've included > > the SD configuration showing the autochanger and the 4 drives. > > > > Thank you again, if you wish more information I will be happy to supply > > it. > > Whether or not Bacula uses multiple drives depends in part on your setting > of "Prefer Mounted Volumes" (if I remember the name right), which is set in > the bacula-dir.conf file. If you have this set to "yes" (I think that is > the default), it is not going to use the other drives unless it has no > choice (i.e. different pools or something that forces it).
I defined Monthly, Weekly and Daily pools for each major client that I am archiving. Part of that was specifically to be able to use multiple drives to overlap backups, part of it was to be able to segregate tapes by client. Multiple drive selection and overlapped backup has been working previously without any change to the configuration scripts, certainly without changes to 'Prefer Mounted Volumes'. What I am seeing now is that if a volume is mounted in drive 0, it is unmounted and the new volume mounted in drive 0. Previously it would leave drive 0 alone and place the new volume in drive 1, etc. > Unless, you can make it really obvious what is going on here, and > currently, it isn't, the only real solution is to write a regression script > and submit it. This is regrettable, but the SD has become so complicated > now and there is only one of me for the moment, so I don't have much > choice. I found the 'Prefer Mounted Volumes' parameter. I'm not certain I understand its implications about multiple Volumes, since I already have those defined, but I will work with it to see what it does. -- -- Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
