Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This is in response to the email from Jesper (see below). As it is not always obvious, I am not in the least upset in any way. This is meant to be information about our future direction, and more directly a response to Jesper's concerns and questions. I have devoted 12-16 hours a day man

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Dan Langille
>From time to time, someone posts a "you're killing the project" post. My reply is more a generic reply to those types of posts, which seems to bring up the same points time and time again. Yet the project does not die, the open source project has not collapsed On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Jespe

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/23/2012 7:56 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Jesper Krogh wrote: > >> The problem is, I dont think there is a single person on this planet >> running bacula in an non-Enterprise context. The amout of work, >> hardware and time needed to run >> a decent backup system wit

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/23/2012 10:47 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 3/23/2012 7:56 AM, Dan Langille wrote: >> I am running Bacula at home. Not everyone uses tapes and auto changers >> at home. But I do. >> >> Based on what I've see on the list, this is not uncommon. > > Absolutely. I have two clients who use Bacula

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/23/2012 11:31 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > To return somewhat to the original issue, if I ever get enough > uninterrupted free time on my hands, I have a thought to looking at the > spooling problem myself. I have a design approach in mind already. > This is the basic process as I see it: >

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/23/2012 11:58 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > A FIFO queue makes sense, but how will SD know when it has completed > writing all of the spool files for a particular job? The same way it knows it's finished writing all the data for a particular job now, I assume. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Mark, On 03/23/2012 05:43 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: > In the message dated: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:20:52 BST, > The pithy ruminations from Kern Sibbald on > fi > nish despooling?> were: > => Hello, > => > => This is in response to the email from Jesper (see below). As it is >

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/23/2012 12:49 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/23/2012 11:58 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> A FIFO queue makes sense, but how will SD know when it has completed >> writing all of the spool files for a particular job? > The same way it knows it's finished writing all the data for a > particular j

Re: [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/23/2012 04:19 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 3/23/2012 12:49 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 03/23/2012 11:58 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >>> A FIFO queue makes sense, but how will SD know when it has completed >>> writing all of the spool files for a particular job? >> The same way it knows it's