On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jesse Peterson
<jesse.peterson AT exbiblio DOT com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering why a few behaviors are so in bacula with regard to
> multiple tape drives:
>
> 1. When I do a restore job the only tape drive I'm able to use to
> restore with seems to be the one defined in the job or pool. It seems
> intuitive to me to be able to use the tape drive that is not used
> since the tape drives are the same and use the same media.
>
> 2. When attempting to use a new tape for a job I find a similar
> situation is present per above - I try to label a tape in a different
> device (again same drives, same media) in the same pool but it will
> not use that new media I've created.
>
> --
>
> Is there a reason it is so adamant about tying a single tape drive to
> a single pool and trying to use it only? I'd imagine that if a pool
> were tied to a media type then you could use any tape drive that
> bacula knows about that is of the same media type (or at least that
> seems the most intuitive to me).
>

Are you talking about an autochanger or separate drives?

John

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