Short version: What combination of directives will make bacula choose to
use both drives defined in the autochanger at the same time?
Long version:
I'm now at the next phase of implementation and want to be able to run 2
jobs concurrently. The default behavior, once concurrent jobs are
enabled, is to write N jobs to the same volume, interleaving the data. I
have 2 drives and want one job to run on each. The section of the manual
that would seem to apply is in Configuring the Director under Maximum
Concurrent Jobs:
Please note that the Volume format becomes much more complicated with
multiple simultaneous jobs, consequently, restores can take much longer
if Bacula must sort through interleaved volume blocks from multiple
simultaneous jobs. This can be avoided by having each simultaneously
running job write to a different volume or by using data spooling, which
will first spool the data to disk simultaneously, then write each spool
file to the volume in sequence.
The bit about have each ... write to a different volume seems to be
what I'm looking for, but I haven't found the combination of
settings/attributes that achieve it.
Since in other sections of the manual and FAQ it suggests that you
should allow bacula to choose the volume that it wants to use, this
seems counter-intuitive.
I've looked at Use Volume Once, Maximum Volume Jobs and retention and
recycle times directives but none of them seem appropriate.
Alan Davis
Senior Architect
Ruckus Network, Inc.
703.464.6578 (o)
410.365.7175 (m)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
alancdavis AIM
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