Hello all,

I have a question about bacula conception.

When you define a job, you have to tell in it where you will store the data,
with the keyword Storage.

Imagine you do backup on disk: on the storage conf file, you define 3
virtual drives (VirtualTapeDrive_01,VirtualTapeDrive_02,VirtualTapeDrive_03)
which take 4GiBFile as media.
In the job definition, you have to put the name of the storage through which
data will be written. Let's name them VTD_01, VTD_02, VTD_03 to be
consistent with the definition in the bacula-sd.conf file. They are name in
the bacula-dir.conf file.

At this point i don't understand. Why define a storage device instead of a
storage daemon in the job definition.

If the drive is already used, your job will have to wait until it  would be
available again, even if the storage demon manages 2 others drives which are
free. So why such a conception ? In this manner, you can do a sort of load
balancing  by storage daemon, you have to do a load balancing by jobs, which
is more difficult to manage.

Do I understand something wrong ? Can someone explain me why this choice ?

Thanks !
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