On Sun, 25 May 2008 00:02:19 +0200
Stephan Jennewein <xt3 AT cccmz DOT de> wrote:

> On Saturday 24 May 2008 01:34:11 pm Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Stephan Jennewein schrieb:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > >> maybe:
> > >> a) change the priorities of the jobs. the jobs that should run togheter
> > >> should get the same priority. Remember: different priorities can't run
> > >> concurrent.
> > >
> > > This could be a solution, but isn't there anything more automatic because
> > > I will get a lot of jobs in the nearer future so I have to choose for
> > > each job which priority I want. As I thought priority should reflect the
> > > importance of the backup of a computer than to loadbalance.
> > >
> > >> b) change the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" in the Client section of
> > >> bacula-dir.conf to 1 (or whatever you like)
> > >
> > > I don't think this would work because the second job is waiting for the
> > > first one. That's what happening at the moment.
> >
> > hmm.. i understood, that you want to have only one job per
> > client/machine run at one time. but after rereading i see that isn't
> > what you like to achiev. so you want to start at least 2 jobs per pc at
> > a time?
> What i want is to have always as much jobs from different computers running 
> as 
> i have tape drives so i get the best throughput. at the moment i only have 
> two drives but maybe i will get more soon. so it should be a flexible 
> solution, but i want this with a minimum of schedules. otherwise i have to 
> write a lot of schedules which will start one minute after another. 

Have you looked at "Prefer Mounted Volumes = no" ?  I think this makes bacula 
use multiple drives at once.  See the manual for more info.

Regards,
-- 
Alex Chekholko

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