On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM,  <mangabbs AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>> On 05/03/10 08:35, John Drescher wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:16 AM,  <mangabbs AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>> >> Greetings,
>> >>
>> >> I'm using Bacula  Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> >> over Gentoo Linux. I've upgraded to be able to use some new features
>> >> such as "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for devices. Actually it seems to does
>> >> not work (at least for me!). If I start 2 different jobs at the same
>> >> time the 2nd is waiting to reserve a drive.
>> >>
>> >> If I try to get status for storage from bconsole during the jobs I get:
>> >>
>> >> Running Jobs:
>> >> Writing: Full Backup job BACKUP-vps-serverone JobId=742
>> >> Volume="VOLUME-Full- vps-serverone-0362"
>> >>    pool="POOL-FULL-vps-serverone" device="bkp12-disk" (/bacula)
>> >>    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>> >>    Files=1,634 Bytes=34,226,389 Bytes/sec=2,139,149
>> >>    FDReadSeqNo=13,839 in_msg=9397 out_msg=5 fd=5
>> >> Writing: Full Backup job BACKUP-vps-servertwo JobId=743
>> >> Volume="VOLUME-Full- vps-serverone-0362"
>> >>    pool="POOL-FULL-vps-servertwo" device="bkp12-disk" (/bacula)
>> >>    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>> >>    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>> >>    FDSocket closed
>> >> ====
>> >>
>> >> Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
>> >>   3608 JobId=743 wants Pool="POOL-FULL-vps-servertwo" but have
>> >> Pool="POOL- FULL-vps-serverone" nreserve=0 on drive "bkp12-disk"
>> >> (/bacula). ====
>> >
>> > The problem is each job uses a different pool and only 1 volume can be
>> > loaded in a device at a time so the second job has to wait.
>>
>> If it's a hard requirement that the two jobs use separate pools, you
>> could create a second disk storage device on the same physical device.
>>
>> You could also possibly look into using the vchanger.
>>
>
> Thank you Phil, the first solution sound nice to me. I am trying to use the
> configuration described here: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-
> manuals/en/main/main/Basic_Volume_Management.html (it looks like the same you
> suggested, the only difference is that I use the same folder for all devices).
>
> I've setup all my "alias devices" to use the same folder /bacula to get the
> tapes. But the storage daemon seems to does not recognize the old tapes
> created from different devices on previous jobs, because with storage status
> from console I get:
>
> Device "bkp12-disk-e" (/bacula) is not open.
>    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>       Pool:        POOL-FUL-bkp13
>       Media type:  File12e
>
> It looks like very strange to me, because if I restart the job o the original
> device it work as expected. Both devices are on the same storage daemon and
> use the same folder.
>
> What can be?
>

Do you have volumes of Media type File12e in your  POOL-FUL-bkp13 pool already?


Please post the output of

list media pool=POOL-FUL-bkp13

John

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