On 02.05.2018 at 00:33 wrote Ruth Ivimey-Cook: > I have two bare LTO4 scsi drives, both for use by Bareos. I have set up a > tape media type LTO4 and two pools, Full and Incr. Media is explicitly > assigned to one or the other pool when created, and all normal jobs are > assigned to use one or the other pool. > > I want both drives to be considered for mounted volumes before bareos asks me > to (manually) insert a new tape in a drive I select. So if I have a Full-pool > tape in one drive and an Incr-pool in the other, I should only be asked for a > new tape when one of them reaches EoM. > > Currently only one drive is being used; whenever the system wants a new > volume for any reason it ejects the tape in drive 0 and waits, even if the > appropriate volume is already mounted in drive 1! > > I don't want to have to use media type to distinguish drives and pools; that > seems silly, and in any case breaks the use case of a multi tape full backup > using both drives one after the other, giving me time to change the tape in > the idle drive. > > How can make the system check all available mounted volumes before ejecting > anything, and using the drive that has the volume available? > > I am willing to try to modify the bareos source code if that is needed and > would appreciate any advice to that end. For example I wondered about adding > a 'group' feature to storage that essentially makes two drives look like a > small autochanger.
Grouping devices are done by specifying multiple devices in the directors Storage Device directive. For disk based backups this is documented in http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#UsingMultipleStorageDevices If you are lucky, this will properly also work with tape drives without autochanger. If not, you can probably hack together a "virtual autochanger script", see http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#BareosAutochangerInterface Anyhow, this is not a typical use case. Regards, Jörg -- Jörg Steffens joerg.steff...@bareos.com Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 630693-91 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 630693-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, Jörg Steffens, P. Storz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bareos-devel@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
