I've just spent two hours going nuts trying to get concurrent jobs
running on my new 3.0.1 install on my new server, because of an
oversight in the config file syntax and syntax checking.
Here's the problem:
The "Max Concurrent Jobs" directive is *legal* in the Storage resource
in bacula-dir.conf, but is not *required* there, so it's not reported as
an error if it's missing.
The "Max Concurrent Jobs" directive is *ALSO* legal in the Storage
resource in bacula-sd.conf, but there, it is *ignored*, and not reported
as an error if it's present.
So, you set director concurrency to 20 in bacula-dir.conf, you set
storage concurrency to 20 in bacula-sd.conf which seems quite reasonable
and logical, you run <daemon> -t to check the syntax and it says the
good, then you start everything and try to run two concurrent jobs ...
and it doesn't work. But everything in the configuration looks as
though it should. It's not at all obvious that the sd has ignored the
concurrency setting, and the dir has silently defaulted it to 1.
My suggestion: Since Max Concurrent Jobs is ignored in bacula-sd.conf's
storage{}, make <bacula-sd -t> report it as an error and emit a message
along the lines of "This directive must go in the Director's Storage
resource." Make it REQUIRED in bacula-dir.conf's storage{}, even if
explicitly set to 1.
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