Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup behavior with 2 tape drives

2008-07-10 14:18:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup behavior with 2 tape drives
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Win Htin" <win.htin AT gmail DOT com>, baculausers <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:18:42 -0400
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Win Htin <win.htin AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> I am in the process of adding a second LTO4 tape drive to our tape changer.
> Currently, all backup clients are assigned to the same FULL and INCREMENTAL
> schedules. At present, each daily incremental or full backup, assigned to
> different pools, fits nicely onto ONE tape.
>
> My question is, once I have the second tape drive, what will the default
> behavior be? Will Bacula try to grab two tapes at the same time and run the
> backups in parallel? I would prefer only one tape being used for full
> backups since those are taken off-site.
>
The default behavior is to use 1 drive per pool. I mean by default it
will not load the same pool in more than 1 drive.

John

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