On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shad L. Lords" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Item 1: Allow tape drives to be associated with autochanger >> resource on different host >> Note: A single robot controls multiple drives but is only connected >> to one machine. It is currently possible to work around >> things by having remote hosts issue mtx commands over ssh but >> nothing prevents multiple mtx commands from being issued at >> the same time. > > why not use something like > > ssh robotmaster "flock /var/run/mtx.lock mtx ..." > > as your tapechanger command? flock will wait until it gets a lock on > the file, so there will never be two mtx processes running > simultaneously. > -- The reason is that he wants to split up his tape multi drive changer so that the drives are on more than 1 machine to allow for higher performance but at the same time he wants to have 1 changer resource in bacula and send the jobs to the 1 changer.
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