On 10/05/2009 01:31 PM, Kiryl Hakhovich wrote:
> Bob thanks for your input...
>
> On 10/05/2009 01:26 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote:
>
>>
>>> hey fellas,
>>>
>>> have been using bacula for over 4 years now, great neat powerful!
>>>
>>> i come across two issues with bacula, that i think can be taken care
>>> of on bacula level, which are not implemented yet (or i am not aware
>>> of them):
>>>
>>> 1. using a tape library, sometimes issue arise when bacula have
>>> loaded a tape from the slot, then, some idiot (generally help desk
>>> people) put a new tape into the same slot, where tape that in the
>>> drive used to be. This causing a problem, as bacula insisting on
>>> unloading the tape into the slot where it took it. Since it is
>>> already full, it fails and all jobs fail as a result. There should be
>>> a way for bacula to check if slot is taken, get the next available
>>> slot to unload tape.
>>>
>> I don't know for sure what happened with your instance, but in my
>> instance I never open the main door and only use the I/O slots. In
>> that case the bug is not really in bacula but in the autochanger. The
>> best solution is a procedural one--just 'release' each drive before
>> using your autochanger's "import" function.
>>
>>
> the problem in my environment is, full backup set is about 3-4 tapes,
> for a tech to use gui and mailslot will take like 20 min to pick tape,
> move to mail slot, take it out. i guess i can use an unload function
> right after the backup of catalog... that would take care of it.
>
>>> 2. having over 6 pools with 20-30dlt tapes, sometimes issue arise
>>> (there is no way to keep up with proper schedule as delivery people
>>> always fail): there are tapes (volumes) with status append in the
>>> pool available and they are in the tape library, however bacula seem
>>> to purge tape that has expiration date in the past, and insist on
>>> using that tape first, if that tape not in the library, bacula will
>>> wait for the tape it wants. I think bacula should look at the AL
>>> tapes that available in pool for current job, and if it is not in the
>>> library at the moment, move to the next available tape.
>>>
>>> does any one else ran into similar situation with large bacula
>>> implementation ?
>>>
>>> Thanks to all
>>> Kiryl
>>>
>>>
>> I believe I had this issue a long time ago. If I remember correctly,
>> it is because bacula ignores the 'InChanger' field unless you tell it
>> you're using a changer in both the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf
>> files. So for me, the appropriate section of my bacula-dir.conf file
>> is...
>> Storage {
>> Name = Dell-PV136T
>> Autochanger = yes
>> Address = gyrus
>> SDPort = 9103
>> Device = Dell-PV136T
>> Media Type = LTO-2
>> Password = "snip-password-here"
>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 12
>> }
>> Note the "Autochanger = yes" line above.
>>
>>
>
> i do have the autochanger set to yes, but that does not solve for me.
>
>
now that i think about it more... i think if i add update slots before
the job... that may help this issue :)
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>
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