Thanks for your response, if I get really stuck I'll post. Knowing my logic is flawed is the biggest part of the battle.
This is my 3 or 4 attempt in as many years, really want it to stick this time.. On 12/16/2015 11:12 AM, Clark, Patti wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
