Hi Everyone, I built a bacula backup system with version 9.4.4 that uses a 6 drive tape library. It has been working great where backups are concerned, but is failing when there are 2 or more restore jobs submitted that require the same tape to run.
Bacula is taking the restore requests and assigns each one to use a different tape drive in the library, which would be fine if the data for each was on different tapes . But in this case, where the data for the restores is all on the same tape, only the first job is able to run and complete successfully. The other jobs do start, but fail after 20 minutes, waiting for the tape they require to load. I am not sure why bacula does not queue the other jobs and have them wait for the tape to become available before assigning a drive and starting, same as what it does when multiple backups are run that require the same pool tape. I have played around with different options, and the only work around I found so far, was to hardcode a single drive to be used for restores, which is not ideal, since it slows down the restore process when needing to restore files from different pools. Has anyone come across this issue, and did you find a solution? Please let me know. Thank you Eric
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