On 02/ 3/10 03:58 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> I have two tape drives.  We'll ignore that one of them is a tape library
> for now (http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=126504711226283&w=2).
>
> I have one Pool because I haven't had a good reason to create another
> pool.  I cannot get backups to go to the second drive. Only the first
> drive is used, even if I put the tape in the second drive and mount it.
>    Bacula demands that it be in the first drive.
>
> I have no idea why.
>
> Are you using multiple drives?  If so, can you elaborate please?
>

I think you have found your reason ;-)

A couple years ago I tried to setup something similar but found that I 
had to create separate storage and pools. With this setup I could use 
both drives at the same time (different jobs of course). I was able to 
spread full backup jobs evenly between the two drives and cut backup 
times in half. Which in my case was to cut full backup time down to 
about 20 hours.

Job {
     Name = Job-1
     FullBackupPool = Full-1
     DifferentialBackupPool = Daily
     IncrementalBackupPool = Daily
}

Job {
     Name = Job-2
     FullBackupPool = Full-2
     DifferentialBackupPool = Daily
     IncrementalBackupPool = Daily
}

Storage {
     Name = DDS4-0
     Device = DDS4-0
     ...
}

Storage {
     Name = DDS4-1
     Device = DDS4-1
     ...
}

Storage {
     Name = DDS3-0
     Device = DDS3-0
     ...
}

Pool {
     Name = Full-1
     Device = DDS4-0
}

Pool {
     Name = Full-2
     Device = DDS4-1
}

Pool {
     Name = Daily
     Device = DDS3-0
}



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