Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:51:13 -0500, Glen Barber said: Hello, I'm running Bacula version 2.4.3 on a machine with a single tape drive, and on occasion the tape will become full overnight. 'status dir' shows the following: server1.-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS is waiting on max Storage jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Martin, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote: If I understand the documentation correctly, raising dir.conf Maximum Concurrent Jobs will interleave multiple backups to tape, which I want to avoid.  Is there something obvious I've missed in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote: If I understand the documentation correctly, raising dir.conf Maximum Concurrent Jobs will interleave multiple backups to tape,

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread Glen Barber
Hi John, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote: If I understand the documentation correctly,

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Martin

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Bacula is capable of only one spool file, it seems? I suppose a more specific question would be can I have Bacula close a spool file if it cannot despool, and write to tape when it is available? Looks like that is

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 Thread Andrea Conti
If I understand the documentation correctly, raising dir.conf Maximum Concurrent Jobs will interleave multiple backups to tape, which I want to avoid. Not if you use data spooling. Bacula is capable of only one spool file, it seems? Each job is spooled to a separate file, which is deleted

[Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-10 Thread Glen Barber
Hello, I'm running Bacula version 2.4.3 on a machine with a single tape drive, and on occasion the tape will become full overnight. 'status dir' shows the following: server1.-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS is waiting on max Storage jobs Since the machine has plenty of space to spool the data, I'd like