Thanks Martin, I will add the max clients jobs directive. That is a good question regarding the mirror throughput, I’ll look into testing it. I wonder if I could spool on a ramdisk (the bacula server has 32gb) since the other server which is backed up is faster (raidz2 of 8x4tb 7200rpm drives connected over 10gbe) or change to spool attributes only or leave spooling off altogether. Is there a way to check if the drives are being bottlenecked and causing “shoe shining”?
On Feb 6, 2019, at 9:48 AM, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 00:05:21 -0500, Nate K said: >> >> I've tried to figure this out on my own with searches and going through the >> manual and I need some clarification. I've included the relevant section >> of the bacula-sd.conf file below. I'm confused because I think this should >> work properly but I am getting the message "is waiting on max Client jobs" >> for all additional jobs that are running after the first. Every other >> daemon's config has maxes of 20 jobs. > > You need to increase "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" in the Client resource in > bacula-dir.conf to prevent "is waiting on max Client jobs". It defaults to 1. > > >> I also am confused about the spool directive. The server running bacula >> has 2x 1tb drives in a mirror zfs pool. I wonder how large I could make >> the spool directives. It isn't clear to me when I set the spool directives >> in each device section, if they all share "Maximum Spool Size = 100g" or if >> each of the 5 drives will allocate 100gb then using 500gb total of my disk >> space. if I want to never exceed 80% used space on the zpool and I also >> need 150gb for VMs and also need space for the catalog backing up 12-15tb >> of files, how high should I set the max and job spools? > > The "Maximum Spool Size" is the size per spool file, so you will use up to > 500GB. > > Does your 2 way mirror have enough throughput to feed 5 LTO3 drives > simultaneously (or even 1 drive with 4 other jobs simultaneously writing to > their spool files)? > > __Martin _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
