Re: [Bacula-users] Same job started twice

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Van der Veken
Hi all, I seem to be suffering from a side effect to Allow duplicates = no and the Cancel [Queued | Lower Level] duplicates settings. I make full / differential backups to disk in the weekend, and copy those to tape for off-site storage on Monday. There's only one copy job definition with its

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from serial jobs to parallel jobs.

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Van der Veken
This approach can help too: besides doing them in parallel (limited to 5 concurrent jobs because ultimately it all winds up on the same disks), I also divided them into 4 groups. From the 1st to 4th Friday night each month, a full backup is done of one group and differential of the other three.

Re: [Bacula-users] Same job started twice

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Van der Veken
Sorry, posted the wrong pool definition, and that's why Maximum Concurrent Jobs was set to 5 instead of 1. The right one: Pool { Name = Tape Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 3 months File Retention = 3 months

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from serial jobs to parallel jobs.

2015-05-04 Thread Dan Langille
On May 4, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Luc Van der Veken luc...@wimionline.com wrote: This approach can help too: besides doing them in parallel (limited to 5 concurrent jobs because ultimately it all winds up on the same disks), I also divided them into 4 groups. From the 1st to 4th Friday night

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from serial jobs to parallel jobs.

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/4/2015 10:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On May 4, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Luc Van der Veken luc...@wimionline.com wrote: This approach can help too: besides doing them in parallel (limited to 5 concurrent jobs because ultimately it all winds up on the same disks), I also divided them into 4

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from serial jobs to parallel jobs.

2015-05-04 Thread Dan Langille
On May 4, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com wrote: On 5/4/2015 10:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On May 4, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Luc Van der Veken luc...@wimionline.com mailto:luc...@wimionline.com wrote: This approach can help too: besides doing them in parallel (limited to 5