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 } -- Robert W Hartzell bear at rwhartzell.net RwHartzell.Net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users