On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Robert LeBlanc <robert AT leblancnet DOT us> 
wrote:
> I needed to restore some files, a job over three tapes with the third tape
> already loaded into drive-2, the restore job decided to use drive-1 and
> after the first two tapes, couldn't load/find the third tape. I tried to
> manually unmount the tape from drive-2, but it was being read from even
> though there were no jobs running.
>
> I tried again just restoring from the tape that was in drive-2, this time
> back-ups were running to drive-2, the director again wanted that tape in
> drive-1 and would not notice that the tape was already in drive-2 and queue
> the restore for it.
>
> Is there a way to get restores to be a little smarter about what tapes are
> already in which drives?
>
At this point in time bacula will never switch drives for a single
job. I believe for restores as you mention this can and will be
implemented in the future but do not expect backups to switch drives
any time soon.

John

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