Re: [Bacula-users] Read-only device resources

[Josh F. <jf...@pv...>]

On 9/4/2015 2:06 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote:
> Hello Josh,
>
> Are you using a physical or virtual autochanger?
>
> I haven´t tried the read-only feature yet. But I was wondering if in 
> the case of a physical autochanger you could have the read-only drive 
> also configured as a standalone drive. This way it would be possible 
> to configure your Virtual Full to use this standalone drive for 
> reading and all the other ones for writing.

This is with a virtual autochanger. But how is does one specify the read 
drive separately from the write drive?

>
> Best regards,
> Ana
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Josh Fisher <jf...@pv... 
> <mailto:jf...@pv...>> wrote:
>
>     Is anyone using the relatively new read-only feature of Device
>     resources? I had thought to use this feature to reserve an autochanger
>     drive as the read drive for virtual full backups. But in a two-drive
>     autochanger, making drive 1 read-only is problematic. A virtual
>     full job
>     will select the read drive before it selects the write drive.  I have
>     confirmed that it will, or at least can, select drive 0 (the
>     read/write
>     drive) as the read drive for the virtual full job and then be stuck
>     without a writable drive, causing the job to fail. I would have
>     thought
>     that when selecting a read drive for a virtual full or copy job
>     that the
>     selection would prefer an available read-only drive over an available
>     read/write drive, but that does not seem to be the case. Any thoughts?
>
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