Thank you John, I have a couple of questions which are outlined below.

>> When I run two jobs at the same time which want to write to two
>> different
>> tapes, the second one fails immediately rather than both spooling and
>> the
>> first one to finish de-spooling to tape, this is clear from the
>> following
>> error message:
>> 03-Oct 07:00 abc-dir: Start Backup JobId 58,
>> Job=def-backup.2007-10-03_07.00.00
>> 03-Oct 07:00 abc-dir: Using Device "DLT-V4"
>> 03-Oct 07:00 xyz-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob: run command
>> "/etc/bacula/waitforntbackup"
>> 03-Oct 11:09 backupserver-sd: def-backup.2007-10-03_07.00.00 Fatal
>> error:
>> acquire.c:355 Wanted to append to Volume "CNI910", but device "DLT-V4"
>> (/dev/nst0) is busy writing on "CNI911" .
>> 03-Oct 11:09 xyz-fd: def-backup.2007-10-03_07.00.00 Fatal error:
>> job.c:1758 Bad response to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
>> , got 3903 Error append data
>>
> The weird part here is that bacula started a second job knowing it
> could not write to the second tape at the same time as the first tape.
Could it have done this because it has an autochanger?

> In normal circumstances on a single device bacula will only allow
> concurrency on the jobs that want to use the same pool and they all
> write to the same volume.
So what you are saying is that it should have queued the jobs?

Many thanks,

Spencer



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