On Thursday 09 July 2015 18.13:16 Bruno Marsal wrote:
> Hi, consider following setup:
> * Storage daemon configured with archive device: /mnt/backup with media
> type: file
> * Storage daemon connected via 10Gbps Ethernet
> * Many jobs. For example: Backup server1, Backup server2, . Backup server70
> * Each server has its own volume pool: server1-fd-Pool, server2-fd-Pool, .
> server70-df-Pool
>
> This configuration worked great but the problem was the jobs are running
> consecutively and would run sometimes several days (in case of full backups).
> Seeking for an option to run the backup jobs in parallel I created
> 4 Device definitions on the storage daemon and 4 storage definitions on the
> director:
> On Storage daemon:
> * Device { Name = Backup_01; Archive device = /mnt/backup; media type = file;
> [...]}
> * Device { Name = Backup_02; Archive device = /mnt/backup; media type = file;
> [...]}
> * Device { Name = Backup_03; Archive device = /mnt/backup; media type = file;
> [...]}
> * Device { Name = Backup_04; Archive device = /mnt/backup; media type = file;
> [...]} On Director:
> * Storage { Name = Storage_01; Device = Backup_01; [...]} ...
> * Storage { Name = Storage_04; Device = Backup_04; [...]}
>
> The pools were randomly configured to use either Storage_01, Storage_02,
> Storage_03 and Storage_04 --> Now 4 jobs are running in parallel which is
> almost perfect.
>
> The problem with this configuration is: Whenever a new server is being added
> to be backed up, we manually must choose a storage (01-04) which is all but
> perfect.
> Is there a way to configure/modify the job scheduler in order it assigns one
> storage after the other to the scheduled jobs? Could this be done using
> plugins?
> Is there some other nicer way to more or less automatically balance the jobs
> to the available storages?
>
> Bruno
>
What you're looking for is "spooling", so you could have on storage and device,
and all jobs will be spooled together
then for x reasons write done to the device.
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