I think i've understood because VirtualFull consolidation stall...

...now i need only to (try to) fix it.


I use a dummy Autochanger, with 3 devices, to bacup some windows client to
a file pool.
On sunday morning i do a Virtual Full to consolidate incrementals done
during the weekend.

During test phase all worked as expected. In real use, sometime virtualfull
task stalls, get cancelled by timeout, and so sooner or later volume end in the
pools of the client, leading to a backup stall.

Finally today i've understood.


I start all virtual full on sunday morning, at the same time. dummy
autochanger have 3 devices.
First job start and consume a device to read.
Second job start consume a device to read.
Third job start consume the last device to read.
Device finished. No free device to write. And all stall. ;-(


There's some way to 'reserve' a device in an autochanger to write only? or
something smart i can do to prevent stall?


Thanks.

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