Hi,

I hate to reply to my own mail, but does nobody have an idea about
what I'm trying to do? ;)

If not, I'll submit an feature request. Because I think it is more
important to limit the number of concurent jobs on the drives, than on
the changer.


Ralf Gross schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 3 drive autochanger (bacula 2.2.8). Right now I configure
> each job to use one of the 3 drives, not the changer device.
> 
> 
> Storage {
>   Name = Neo4100
>   Address = ....
>   SDPort = 9103
>   Password = "wiped"
>   Device = Neo4100
>   Media Type = LTO4
>   Autochanger = yes
>   Heartbeat Interval = 5min
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
> }
> 
> Storage {
>   Name = Neo4100-LTO4-D1
>   Address = ....
>   SDPort = 9103
>   Password = "wiped"
>   Device = ULTRIUM-TD4-D1
>   Media Type = LTO4
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> 
> [2 more drives]
> 
> And in the client's job config I then use
> 
> Storage = Neo4100-LTO4-D1 
> or
> Storage = Neo4100-LTO4-D2
> 
> 
> Now I would like to go back to the more typical bacula approach, where I use
> the changer device in the client's job config.
> 
> But I don't want concurrent jobs running on each drive. I want that it's
> possible to run 3 jobs on the changer (one for each drive), but only one on
> each drive at the same time.
> 
> I could achieve that with different Priorities, but then these jobs are
> blocking jobs which are using other storage devices.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Ralf

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