Hi,

01.10.2007 21:19,, Dane Miller wrote::
> I'm trying to backup multiple clients to disk and would like the jobs to
> run simultaneously.  Each job writes to a unique volume name (e.g.
> clientA-Full-0001, clientB-Diff-0001).
> 
> There are many posts on this subject, so I'm sorry for bringing it up
> again.  But I'm still having problems after reading the list archives.
> My jobs run one-at-a-time, not concurrently.  What am I doing wrong?

You need one storage device per job.

Think of storage devices as tapes: One drive can only write to one 
tape at a time. And tape is what Bacula was designed to use.

You can probably easily integrate the necessary definitions into your 
client-specific settings.

Arno

> Here's what I've got so far...
> 
> Director OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
> bacula-dir/bacula-sd: 2.2.4 (built from ports sysutils/bacula-server)
> client OS: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE i386
> catalog: MySQL 5.0.37
> 
> bacula-dir.conf:
>    Director { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10; ... }
>    Storage { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3; ... }
>    # include jobs from separate files
>    @/usr/local/etc/bacula/jobs/clientA.job
>    @/usr/local/etc/bacula/jobs/clientB.job
> 
> bacula-sd.conf:
>    Storage { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; ... }
> 
> clientX.job:
>    Job { Name = "clientX"; Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3; ... }
>    Client { Name = "clientX-fd"; Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3; ... }
>    Pool { Name = "clientX-Full"; Maximum Volume Jobs = 1; ... }
>    Pool { Name = "clientX-Diff"; Maximum Volume Jobs = 1; ... }
> 
> bacula-fd.conf (on each client):
>    FileDaemon {  Name = clientX-fd; Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; ... }
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
www.its-lehmann.de

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