Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

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On 10/28/2014 08:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 01:46 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
>> On 28/10/14 18:39, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
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>>> (As an aside, bacula, specifically, seems to force you to use different
>>> Media Type for each physical device so I don't get how it would work
>>> with multiple drives in the same jukebox, either -- thankfully I don't
>>> need to.)
>>
>> It's been more than happy to set the media type to LTO-5 on 7 drives,
>> LTO-2 on 2 (different changer) and LTO-6 on another.
>>
>> What it can't handle is that you can load media types LTO4 RW in the
>> LTO5 drives and also LTO3 RO, which would be extremely handy.
>
> We used ait-1 tapes in ait-3 drive with notworker and just ignored the
> "premature eot" (or whatever it was) barf.
>
> But I was referring to Kern's
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>> Message-ID: <518DD7F5.7080308 AT sibbald DOT com>
>> Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 07:32:37 +0200
>> From: Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup to multiple disks
> ...
>> Yes, Media Type is very important. It must
>> be in the Storage resources on the Director
>> side, and notice that as I mentioned before, on
>> the SD side, Autochanger really just groups a
>> number of Devices. The Media Type must be
>> in each Device, because each one can be different
>> so it is not in the Autochanger resource.
>>
>> There is no restriction for multiple devices to have
>> the same Media Type, but if they are disk devices
>> and don't have the same Archive Device, Bacula
>> won't be able to "mount" them. So, use the same
>> Media Type only in Devices that have the same Archive
>> Device.
>
> I expect someone had reasons to code it that way for disk devices
> specifically, and they may even seemed good at the time....

It sounds like you are complaining about the above implementation. If it is true that you don't like how it is coded (I assume you mean designed), how would you want it designed?

Kern

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