On 10/28/2014 01:46 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 28/10/14 18:39, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>> (As an aside, bacula, specifically, seems to force you to use different >> Media Type for each physical device so I don't get how it would work >> with multiple drives in the same jukebox, either -- thankfully I don't >> need to.) > > It's been more than happy to set the media type to LTO-5 on 7 drives, > LTO-2 on 2 (different changer) and LTO-6 on another. > > What it can't handle is that you can load media types LTO4 RW in the > LTO5 drives and also LTO3 RO, which would be extremely handy. We used ait-1 tapes in ait-3 drive with notworker and just ignored the "premature eot" (or whatever it was) barf. But I was referring to Kern's > Message-ID: <518dd7f5.7080...@sibbald.com> > Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 07:32:37 +0200 > From: Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup to multiple disks ... > Yes, Media Type is very important. It must > be in the Storage resources on the Director > side, and notice that as I mentioned before, on > the SD side, Autochanger really just groups a > number of Devices. The Media Type must be > in each Device, because each one can be different > so it is not in the Autochanger resource. > > There is no restriction for multiple devices to have > the same Media Type, but if they are disk devices > and don't have the same Archive Device, Bacula > won't be able to "mount" them. So, use the same > Media Type only in Devices that have the same Archive > Device. I expect someone had reasons to code it that way for disk devices specifically, and they may even seemed good at the time.... -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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