Maybe your sentence is not enough clear: *"The same media is readable and writeable by either drive from either library."* To me it sound like the two autochanger are seen as one big library on the system to 2 tapes drives and a lot of slots.
It they are not, then you will have to play with media type so have LTO-8a LTO-8b to make them unique (storage/mediatype) and as such Bareos will not get confused. Of course that mean also you will have always export and reimport into the same library the used tapes. Advise in that case, maybe a dedicated scratch pool is useful to not mix them. Le mercredi 4 octobre 2023 à 23:50:28 UTC+2, Chris Boot a écrit : > Hi all, > > I have a system with two Quantum SuperLoader 3 auto-changers, both with > an LTO-8 drive each. The same media is readable and writeable by either > drive from either library. Bareos has been working with one library and > drive for some time, but we now want to configure the 2nd library. > > The intention is to have jobs able to write to whatever tapes are > available in either library; basically so that two jobs can write at the > same time in order to double throughput. How can we achieve that? > > I've configured the SD with two Autochanger and two Device resources, > and the director with two Storage resources that refer to each > autochanger. This allows commands such as "list slots storage=Tape-1", > "update slots storage=Tape-2", and so on. > > What's not working is starting a job with storage=Tape-1 vs > storage=Tape-2. What seems to happen is Bareos picks a tape from the > pool that's available in either changer, mounts it in whatever drive can > access it even if it's the other drive/changer to the one requested. > When it's in the other drive/changer, the storage on the volume is > updated to the storage on the job, and things start to fall apart. > > For example, I started a job with "run job=MyJob storage=Tape-1". Bareos > selected a tape in the Tape-2 Storage/Autochanger/Device and mounted it > correctly in the wrong Device, then updated the volume record to change > its storage from "Tape-2" to "Tape-1" even though it's actually writing > to the tape via "Tape-2". > > Running "update slots storage=Tape-2" fixes this, but only for a while; > Bareos soon forces it back to the wrong storage. > > So as far as I can tell the SD is configured correctly and doing what > the Director is telling it to do, but the Director doesn't seem to be > able to tell the two sets of devices apart. > > Is there some way around this issue? Can I achieve what I'm trying to do? > > Thanks, > Chris > > -- > Chris Boot > bo...@boo.tc > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/95e86eef-524b-4261-9c9d-aa68aaea86a0n%40googlegroups.com.
