>>>>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:02:51 +0100, Michael Triska said:
>
> we are running bacula 5.2.3 on centos with an Adic Scalar 100
> Autochanger. Two times a week the tapes with volstatus full are changed with
> new and/or expired tapes. New tapes are labeled via "label barcodes" and
> added to the scratch pool, then "update slots" is run in bconsole.
>
> Everytime a job starts and no appendable volumes are available in the
> corresponding pool, bacula purges the oldest expired volume and requests it
> to mount, although InChanger=0 is set. Our expectation would be that bacula
> uses a volume from Scratch pool if no expired media is online within the
> corresponding pool the job uses, but instead it requests the oldest expired
> volume, regardless of its InChanger flag set to 0.
>
> ...
>
> # bacula storage ressource
> #
> Storage {
> Name = STOR_ADICSCALAR
> Address = backup-sd.backup
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "dummy"
> Device = DEV_ADICSCALAR
> Media Type = LTO-3
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
> AllowCompression = No
> }
I think you need to add Autochanger = yes here in the bacula-dir.conf. The
Director needs to know that it is using an autochanger, otherwise it ignores
the InChanger field.
> # bacula device ressource
> #
> Autochanger {
> Name = "DEV_ ADICSCALAR"
> Device = Drive0
> Device = Drive1
> Device = Drive2
> Changer Device = /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-dummy #Adic_Scalar Changer
> Changer Command = "/opt/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer_Adic %c %o %S %a %d"
>
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = " ADICSCALAR_WR31_SD-2_Drive0"
> Media Type = LTO-3
> Archive Device = /dev/tape/by-id/dummy
> DriveIndex = 0
> LabelMedia = no;
> AutoChanger = yes
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> Maximum Network Buffer Size = 65536
> Maximum Spool Size = 286613470000 # ca. 274GB
> # Maximum Job Spool Size = 53687091200 # ca. 50GB
> Maximum Job Spool Size = 42949672960 # ca. 40GB
> Spool Directory = /backup/SPOOL
> }
Have you edited these definitions before posting them? The device names don't
seem to match.
__Martin
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