What can I do when the tape fills, making other jobs wait indefinitely
(Until I change the tape)? (My Bacula is 1.36.3)
I came up with two soloutions:
1) Setting "Max start delay" for the tape jobs, so when the tape fills
they are eventually canceled and Bacula can run the disk jobs.
2) Setting "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" to "10". Using priorities, I can
manage to have the disk jobs run before the tape jobs.
An example: I set Maximum Concurrent jobs to 10. I have 5 disk
jobs and 5 tape jobs every day.
1st day: The 5 disk jobs run first. Then the 5 tape jobs. The
first tape job fills the tape, "hanging" the other jobs.
2nd day: 10 new jobs arrive. There are 5 tape jobs waiting
execution (The ones from the previous day). Since Maximum Concurrent
jobs is set to 10, the 5 disk jobs can execute (**). Then the 5 new
tape jobs try to execute, but they have to wait for the tape.
3th day: Now, although there are 10 possible jobs to be run
concurrently, they all are waiting execution because the tape is full.
And I have 10 new jobs arriving...
I tried to prove the 2nd option, but (**) fails. That is, the
disk jobs don't run, although they could (Because of the Maximum
concurrent jobs set to 10)
Obviously, the problem here is that I have to be more aware of my
tape state and be alert when it is about to filling :-)
But, I'd like to ask:
1) What other solutions have you found to this problem?
2) Do you know why (**) fails?
Thank you
Matias
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