Hi John, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> If I understand the documentation correctly, raising dir.conf Maximum >>>> Concurrent Jobs will interleave multiple backups to tape, which I want >>>> to avoid. Is there something obvious I've missed in the >>>> documentation, or is Bacula expected to stop spooling to disk when the >>>> tape is full? >>> >>> The latter -- it stops because it can't simultaneously read and write the >>> spool file. >>> > > Is simultaneous spooling / despooling in bacula yet? I thought that > was not yet implemented. >
I don't necessarily mean "simultaneous" - in my scenario, the despooling was not possible. > What I have seen is if there is no appendable volume in the device > (and its not an autochanger that can load new volumes) the next time > it needs to spool will be blocked. > Bacula is capable of only one spool file, it seems? I suppose a more specific question would be "can I have Bacula close a spool file if it cannot despool, and write to tape when it is available?" Regards, -- Glen Barber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
