Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] backup shifting jobs

2008-05-30 12:38:35
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup shifting jobs
From: Stephan Jennewein <xt3 AT cccmz DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:37:44 +0200
On Friday 30 May 2008 04:32:32 pm Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Stephan Jennewein schrieb:
> >>> thats what happen at the moment.
> >>> increasing the 'maximum concurrent jobs' in the bacula-fd.conf would
> >>> not fix the problem because the harddrive isn't faster just because i
> >>> want to run more jobs parallel. so i only can parallelize if i can
> >>> dynamically run jobs of different computers at the same time.
> >>
> >> so, i don't know why it isn't working like you expect it.
> >
> > How do you schedule the jobs? I only have one schedule for each server so
> > all of the jobs of one server starts simultaneously. But I have much more
> > than 3 jobs per computer so i don't think the schedule is the right way
> > to go.
>
> This is the schedule:
>
> Schedule {
>    Name = "WeeklyCycle"
>    Run = Pool=Full Full 1st thu at 23:05
>    Run = Pool=Diff Differential 2nd-5th thu at 23:05
>    Run = Pool=Inc Incremental fri-wed at 23:05
> }
>
> JobDefs {
>    ...
>    Name = "DefaultJob"
>    Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
>    ...
> }
>
> Job {
>    ...
>    JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
>    ...
> }
>
>
> Job {
>    ...
>    JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
>    ...
> }
>
> and so on.
>
> >> i've got 4 servers and they backup in parallel one job per server.
> >>
> >> bacula-dir.conf
> >>    Director: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" = 10
> >>    Storage: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" = 4
> >>
> >> Anyway you have set "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" in bacula-dir for
> >> client4,5,7 as you want only start 1 job per computer?
> >
> > To what should I set the option for each client?
>
> if you just want to start 1 job  at a time per client, i would not set
> any specific value.
>
> - Thomas

Ok, I decreased the bacula-dir.conf Storage: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" = 3
and added explicit 'Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" to each client and now it 
seems to work fine. There are 2 Jobs running, but i dont understand why not 3 
are running, but it's ok.

Thanks for your help!
Stephan

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