I am seeing the same problem. I have a recently installed bacula system (v2.4.2) installed on ~ 150 Solaris and Linux computers, with a total of ~ 175 jobs that are scheduled to be run at 18:30 every day.
* I am using the standard schedule to run daily incremental 6 days/week, and either differential or full backups on the 7-th day at 18:30. Later in the day, a full backup of the catalog is scheduled at a lower (higher number) priority every day. * I have one Solaris 10 system that runs both my single storage daemon and director daemon as well as an fd daemon. * My storage system is a Sun/Storagetek Sl500 library with 2 LTO3 drives, both of which are set to AutoSelect = yes for use by the library. All jobs are configured to write the the library, which then selects the appropriate drives. I have 2 tape pools -- Incremental for Incremental and Differential jobs, and Full for Full backup jobs. All jobs are configured with SpoolData = yes, and I have spooling enabled for the 2 tape drives. I allow a total of 8 concurrent jobs to be run. The problem that I am encountering is that I will have 8 incremental jobs running, 4 assigned to each tape drive, but all jobs (and therefore both tape drives) are trying to write to the same tape even though I have multiple available tape drives assigned to the tape pool and in the library. When this happens, the 4 jobs assigned to the drive without the tape will hang until the rest of the incremental jobs have finished writing to the tape drive that has the tape mounted. I then have to manually release the tape from that drive and mount it in the other drive to allow the the 4 hung jobs to finish. My experience seems to indicate that if I have no tapes mounted in the drives when the backups are scheduled that the system will select 2 incremental tapes, one for each drive. However, if I have an incremental tape and a full tape loaded in each drive, the system will try to use the same tape in both drives. Does anyone have a suggestion before I open a bacula bug report? Thanks. - Doug N -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doug Neuhauser University of California, Berkeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berkeley Seismological Laboratory Office: 510-642-0931 215 McCone Hall # 4760 Fax: 510-643-5811 Berkeley, CA 94720-4760 Remote: 530-752-5615 (Wed,Fri) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users