[Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack of disk space, bacula version is 5.0.3 on CentOS (compiled

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 03:53, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack of disk space,

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack of disk space, bacula version is 5.0.3 on CentOS (compiled from

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 08:55:27AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack