On 03/30/2015 06:54 PM, Chris Dos wrote:
>
> Seems that I have stumbled upon the issue myself. Another bit of the backup
> job log:
> 30-Mar 14:48 windwalker-dir JobId 304: Using Device "vchanger_3tb_drive_0" to
> write.
>
> The backup job was set on using vchanger_3tb instead of vchanger_8tb. I had
> no mounted drives listed under vchanger_3tb.conf file. But if you ran
> "update slots storage=vchanger_3tb" it found the volumes listed under the
> vchanger_3tb.
>
> Is it not possible to have multiple vchangers listed? I was planning over
> time to have a mixture of drives. And since I found out that you cannot over
> subscribe the space on a drive or vchanger will no longer work on that
> magazine(drive). So I created two different vchanger configurations and made
> the appropriate configuration changes in bareos-sd.conf.
>
> Originally I had each job use "Storage = vchanger_3tb,vchanger_8tb". But
> somehow a 8TB volume showed up under the 3TB vchanger.
>
> I was planning on making use of multiple vchangers as larger drives came out.
> Supposed to see 20TB drives in a few years.
>
> Have I ran into some kind of bug with using vchangers?
>
> Googling, it seems that Bacula 7.0.5 is also having this problem:
> http://goo.gl/6iMDRj
> A reply in that thread:
> Also, you *must* use a unique
> (different) MediaType = xxx for each autochanger or you will ultimately
> have Bacula asking for Volumes in an autochanger that are not there or
> are not to be loaded
>
> Is the Mediatype name arbitrary? According to the docs I just read, that
> would be a yes. Time to update my configuration and have another go.
>
> Chris
>
Now that I have changed my media type so that it is unique to each vchanger.
Is there an easy way to update the volumes to the new media type? Do I have to
manipulate the Catalog directly or is there some kind of update volume command
I can run?
Chris
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