Unless you Autochanger has two physical Drives for Tapes you will only be
able to access one tape at a time.
Sincerely,
Darold Lucus
=====================
LAN Administrator
EMAC, Inc
618-529-4525 EXT:370
www.emacinc.com
=====================
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:27 PM, jaredk51 <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com>
wrote:
> I'm working with Amazon VTl (virtual Tape Library) and Bacula v 5.2.6
> which functions well and can run concurrent jobs to multiple tape drives
> just fine.
> I want to speed up restores for DR purposes and make use of the 10 virtual
> tape drives VTL gives you.
> I am not sure if bacula supports restoring to multiple tape drives at the
> same time and haven't been able to find
> anything in the documentation as such.
>
> I have created multiple restore jobs and ran them concurrently just fine
> but each restore job waits for the first tape drive to complete before
> running. So running concurrent restores doesn't provide any net benefit as
> they can only run 1 at a time.
> If anyone has any information regarding running restore jobs at the same
> time using multiple tape drives please let me know. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> My restore job configs look like this:
>
> ##
> Job {
> Name = "RestoreFiles"
> Type = Restore
> Client = backup02
> FileSet = "Full Set"
> Pool = Disk
> Messages = Standard
> Where = /mnt/restores
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
> Prefer Mounted Volumes = no
> }
> Job {
> Name = "RestoreFiles2"
> Type = Restore
> Client = backup02
> FileSet = "Full Set2"
> Pool = Disk
> Messages = Standard
> Where = /mnt/restores
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
> Prefer Mounted Volumes = no
> }
>
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