Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel copy jobs revisited

2013-02-05 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 05:41:51PM +0100, Stephane Navarro wrote: -Original message Uwe Schuerkamp Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:50:47 -0700 Hi folks, while we're at it, I was wondering what's happening when bacula copies an on-disk (software-compressed) job to tape?

[Bacula-users] Parallel copy jobs revisited

2012-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, this is my 2nd attempt to configure bacula 5.2.6 to run more than one copy job at a time, and for the life of me I cannot find the error in my config. Parallel backup jobs (both full and incr.) work like a charm, but for some reason bacula refuses to run more than one copy job from disk

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel copy jobs revisited

2012-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, while we're at it, I was wondering what's happening when bacula copies an on-disk (software-compressed) job to tape? Will it decompress the data or will it simply transfer the copy to tape as-is? All the best, Uwe

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel copy jobs revisited

2012-06-04 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net wrote: Hi folks, this is my 2nd attempt to configure bacula 5.2.6 to run more than one copy job at a time, and for the life of me I cannot find the error in my config. Parallel backup jobs (both full and incr.) work like

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel copy jobs revisited

2012-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:59:53AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: Don't disk volumes have just about the same restrictions as a tape volume? Meaning you can not load more than 1 disk volume into the same device at a time. You also can not read or write to different parts of the same volume at

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel copy jobs revisited

2012-06-04 Thread John Drescher
then why do parallel backup jobs to the same disk volume work just fine? Because they append at the same position of the volume interleaving blocks from each backup job. Think of a disk device as a tape drive. John --