Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-drive autochanger problem

2008-10-30 16:07:48
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] multi-drive autochanger problem
From: Bob Hetzel <beh AT case DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:58:27 -0400

John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Bob Hetzel <beh AT case DOT edu> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've got a PowerVault 136T autochanger.  I was running well with two
>> drives up until recently but I've now added a 3rd drive and seem to be
>> having 1 problem more often now.  The problem I'm seeing is that it'll
>> load 3 tapes but then sometimes pick a drive it wants to run a specific
>> backup on but it'll want a tape that's loaded into a different drive,
>> then just sit there waiting for a mount request.  I've noticed other
>> times when it does the unmount/mount properly (although ideally it
>> shouldn't switch drives at all I'd think if a tape it wants is mounted
>> already in any drive and that drive isn't busy).  I went from seeing
>> this every month or so to now seeing this twice in the last week.
>>
>> Here's more info on the settings I'm using...
>> all 3 drives in one pool
>> prefer mounted volumes=no
>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs=12
>> spool data=yes
>>
>> Is there anybody else who's started gathering/reporting debug logs on this?
>>
> 
> Are you using bacula-2.4.2 or better?
> 
> John

Oops, I meant to add that I'm using 2.4.3 actually.

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