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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users