Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-30 Thread Jim Barber
> Kern Sibbald wrote: > > The Storage Daemon shouldn't ever crash. If it does, it is a bug, and you > really should report it (bugs database). However, you should probably be on > 3.0.3 (I forget what version you are using). Even on 3.0.3, we have found > several very unusual problems in th

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 30 November 2009 02:00:22 Jim Barber wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I don't remember getting any feedback from you concerning my comments on > > this proposal. > > Hi Kern. > > I wrote back saying that I may have underestimated that Bacula was smart > enough to avoid usin

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-29 Thread Jim Barber
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I don't remember getting any feedback from you concerning my comments on this > proposal. Hi Kern. I wrote back saying that I may have underestimated that Bacula was smart enough to avoid using the same volume. So I removed my hack to mark tapes as USED to see h

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I don't remember getting any feedback from you concerning my comments on this proposal. I have been thinking about it, and a second problem that you mentioned that I did not address in my comments was that the Volume to be read must be marked as Full or Used (if I remember right). I or

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 22:15:35 Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:16:33 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: > > > > On Friday 20 November 2009 14:44:54 Martin Simmons wrote: > > > It there a technical reason why the NextPool directive is part of the > > > pool at all? > > > > It was n

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:16:33 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: > > On Friday 20 November 2009 14:44:54 Martin Simmons wrote: > > It there a technical reason why the NextPool directive is part of the pool > > at all? > > It was not really a technical reason, but David Boyes suggested doing it that

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 15:54:53 Jim Barber wrote: > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > If the only reason is to prevent a deadlock then this override is not > > necessary since Bacula (at some version, I think it was 2.4.0) will not > > use the same volume for reading and writing.

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-24 Thread Jim Barber
> Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > If the only reason is to prevent a deadlock then this override is not > necessary since Bacula (at some version, I think it was 2.4.0) will not > use the same volume for reading and writing. > > If there is some other good reason, please remove the comment

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-23 Thread Blake Dunlap
> > On Friday 20 November 2009 14:44:54 Martin Simmons wrote: > > It there a technical reason why the NextPool directive is part of the > pool > > at all? > > It was not really a technical reason, but David Boyes suggested doing it > that > way, possibly because that is how TSM does it. At the t

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 22 November 2009 23:11:27 Phil Stracchino wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 18:23:36 Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean, I personally believe this > >> would be a serious mistake, unless it is replaced with an alternate > >> mec

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 18:23:36 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean, I personally believe this >> would be a serious mistake, unless it is replaced with an alternate >> mechanism for accomplishing the same ends. Without Pool and Storage >>

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 20 November 2009 14:44:54 Martin Simmons wrote: > It there a technical reason why the NextPool directive is part of the pool > at all? It was not really a technical reason, but David Boyes suggested doing it that way, possibly because that is how TSM does it. At the time, I wasn't re

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-20 Thread Martin Simmons
It there a technical reason why the NextPool directive is part of the pool at all? When I first heard about migration and copy jobs, I expected to find something like a TargetPool directive in the job definition, so that it can be varied for each job. Someone already had to hack around this with

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, If the only reason is to prevent a deadlock then this override is not necessary since Bacula (at some version, I think it was 2.4.0) will not use the same volume for reading and writing. If there is some other good reason, please remove the comments about deadlock and resubmit, and I think

[Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Barber
Item ?: Allow Schedule Resource to override NextPool Date: 18 November 2009 Origin: Jim Barber. jim.bar...@ddihealth.com Status: New request What: Allow the Schedule resource to define a NextPool= statement to override the NextPool statement of the pool defined in the job. Why: