On Thursday 19 February 2009 11:01:16 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:12:44AM +0200, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I just wanted to inform the list that I worked around the issue by minimizing > > the number of devices/storages. The problem with this is that there may be > > only as many parallel jobs as the number of devices. > > > > Can you be more specific about the configuration that was problematic?
I had created a separate device in SD for every job I needed to run independently, because I didn't want the very small jobs (eg. backing up configurations) to be waiting for big jobs (eg. backing up gigabytes of users' data over WAN). The rule was that I had at least one device per client (that was actually pointed to the same subfolder (meant for the client) on the same partition), so that clients wouldn't bother each other. > What was your Maximum concurrent jobs (in both bacula-dir and bacul-asd)? DIR: 10 SD: 20 (yeah, it should've been at least the same as DIR's, but it didn't matter much) clients: 10 storages: 6 (in order to be able to run multiple instances of one job - that was necessary to cancel duplicate jobs with a script) jobs: 10 (actually 2 would be enough, I think) > How many and what kind of devices did you have configured in your SD? I had total of 35 devices previously. I'm backing up to disk, so the fact that one device can run only 1 job is a real limitation in my case. > I'm also seeing this kind of problems with Bacula 2.4.4 and wondering how to > fix them.. > > > I've created separate devices for the clients having biggest backups, > > currently the number is 4 and it hasn't caused the problem so far.. > > > > OK. I guess you're talking about disk devices? > > What number is 4? Number of storages/devices I have currently - 3 clients have really big jobs so I want them to be able to run independently of other clients, other clients are backed up to the same storage/device. -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
