On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net> 
wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>>> This is how it is documented to work in the manual.
>>>
>> I do admit that this is not easy to find because you have to read each
>> section and the bacula-dir.conf settings override bacula-sd.conf and
>> bacula-fd.conf settings for the case of 1 director.
>
> Then why don't we provide a sensible default in the example
> bacula-dir.conf, as we do in the example bacula-sd.conf?  Why doesn't
> the setting in bacula-sd.conf have a reasonable default if omitted?  The
> single-director case is the overwhelming majority of installations.
> Multiple-director installations and cases where concurrency is not
> desired are going to be the exceptions, not the rule.
>
>

The default settings is for no concurrency because that is the safest
and what most users will want. There was an example of concurrency in
the previous documentation but I am not sure where it went after the
split. I only read the manual when trying to answer user questions
being that I have had bacula in use at work and at home for over 5
years.

John

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