On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a > disk. > > Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each one of them > > has a separate device resource with one job per volume. > > > > The problem is that every client can run only one job at a time. I'm backing > > up across internet several filesets per client. One of them (userdata) may > be > > around 20 GB, but another (log) may be only 20 MB. Now, when userdata runs, > > it reserves it's device for several days as upload is only 100 KB/s so that > > other jobs can't use it as they have the same storage assigned - Bacula > > notifies me with "waiting to reserve a device". > > > > I read "Concurrent Disk Jobs" from the manual. Do I get it correctly, that > If > > I want several jobs to write concurrently into the same directory, I should > > have a separate device (pointing to the same directory) for every job of a > > client? > > The key to understanding this is to realize that a file Device is virtually > identical to a tape device. You can have only one Volume "mounted" at a time > on any Device. > > So, if you have multiple jobs that want to write to the same Volume on any > given Device, there is no problem, you just need to get *all* (the 5 > different) concurrent directives set. If you want to have multiple jobs > writing to the same Device but using different Volumes, then as in the case > of a tape drive, subsequent jobs will wait. You can always add more > Devices, in which case, you can have different volumes mounted on each device > at the same time. > > > > > Silver
Yup, then I guess I understood this correctly - that I have to have separate device for every job, and separate storage also, right? Maybe it would save some configuration head-ache if it was possible to specify device (as an addition to storage directive) in job's configuration? Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
