David, Your assumption is incorrect. Both pools must have the same media type as defined for the tape drives if you want both pools to use both drives, otherwise, the media type can be different, but that is usually when you have different changers and/or storage daemons. I have multiple pools and drives in my changer (all with the same media type) and they play happily together at the same time. If you have further questions, posting your configuration, bacula version, OS version, etc are the details needed to provide more directed answers.
Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R&D Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: David Lawley <da...@upilab.com<mailto:da...@upilab.com>> Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 10:41 AM To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: [Bacula-users] auto-changer with 2 drives Kind of a newbie question, yet asking for a confirmation of my research. I have a Dell ML6000 changer/library with 2 LTO4 drives bconsole list the ML6000 as my device. The library is configured with tapedrive0 and tapedrive1. When I start jobs with different pools one of the drives will get used but not the other, job remains queued even tho the other drive is free. So what I seem to have found is that once a pool is used by a device (this being the ML6000) It cannot access another pool, even tho the device has 2 drives and one is idle. Guessing the best way around this is to use each drive directly rather than the library device? tx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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