Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could confirm what I've noticed on my own instance of bacula, which seems contrary to the Bacula manual. From DataSpooling section: > If you are running multiple simultaneous jobs, Bacula will continue spooling > other jobs while one is despooling to tape, provided there is sufficient > spool file space. > This seems to be true, only if the jobs in question were launched at the > same time/concurrently. New jobs launched while a job is despooling, > are launched into a "running" state, but they do not begin to spool until the > existing job(s) finish despooling. This is very sad, because I just came into a windfall of spool space and I was hoping to run jobs back to back, such that while one set of jobs were despooling, I could have the next set spooling, and so on. Note, all jobs use the same Pool and have the same priority. I noticed this because I've increased the spool file size to the size of my largest job. Now, rather than before (with smaller spool file sizes) when the new jobs had a chance to start spooling while the existing jobs were in a spooling phase, the new jobs cannot being spooling apparently because the existing jobs stay in a despooling phase, which can be for quite some time. I see an old bug 0001231 with a similar issue, which in the history it is pointed out that it may not be that new jobs can't spool while existing jobs despool, but that the new jobs cannot verify that they will have tape access, which is a step before spooling begins. I wonder if this is simply the state of affairs and if so, are there are any plans to improve upon this 'inefficiency'. thanks! Stephen -- Stephen Thompson Berkeley Seismological Laboratory step...@seismo.berkeley.edu 215 McCone Hall # 4760 404.538.7077 (phone) University of California, Berkeley 510.643.5811 (fax) Berkeley, CA 94720-4760 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
