>>> Then it also believes that it's in use on DRIVE1 and is waiting,
>>> blocked, for it. Why doesn't it just use the volume from DRIVE2?
>>> This  is a 2.2.7 director with two separate (non-autochanger) drives.
>>
>> That's the point - The SD selected a certain drive to use when it
>> started the job. It can't switch drives while a job is running.
>
> Sure - but why didn't it pick the drive with the correct volume
> already mounted to begin with? Perhaps the question is - what is the
> logic the SD used to pick the device?
>

Bacula does not do this. Whatever drive you tell it to use for a job
will be the device bacula will use for the entire job even if it knows
that the requested tape is in a different drive.

John

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