On Friday 23 February 2007 21:55, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/23/2007 6:14 PM, Brian Debelius wrote: > > Ok, I see now...after a week of backups. Bacula increments > > automatically to the next higher slot. So its grabbing from slot 1 > > yesterday, slot 2 today, and slot 3 tomorrow. > > Erm... coincidence, I think. > > As far as I know (and that knowledge might be outdated by now) Baculas > way of selecting the next volume is like this: > - prefer volumes in a drive > - prefer volumes available in an autochanger > - prefer volumes with state 'Append' > - prefer volumes with state 'Recycle' > - prefer volumes with state 'Purged' > - use the volume with the lowest ID > (There's more to it, but the above preferences should more or less > reflect what happens.) > > This means that usually, when inserting empty tapes and labeling them, > they will be used in the order they are labeled. The slot a volume is > stored in does not matter much to Bacula. > > So, during normal operation and assuming you only add tapes never used > before, the order in which you labeled them is most important.
Well, if I remember correctly, if Bacula has a choice between using a number of different drives that are all ready to go -- i.e. they are all loaded with appendable Volumes from the right pool, ..., it will make some (though probably rather feeble) effort to select different drives for different jobs from time to time. I don't think this is documented, and I don't remember exactly what I programmed ... > > Arno > > > Brian Debelius wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Is there a way to get Bacula to randomly choose new tapes from the > >>autoloader? The problem I see, is that if I am replacing the tape in > >>Slot 1 everyday with a new tape, then slots 2 - 10 will never be > >>chosen. That is, until the slot 1 tape fills up, and the backup is > >>continued on a another tape. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
