I know this question has beened asked a million times on this list (And yes, I went through the nabble’s bacula-users archives over 2 days) but I think my situation is slightly alittle more unique.  So if anyone could help me out, I would appreciate it!

 

Here’s the background:

We have 150+ clients scattered throughout 3 buildings, but all attached to the main network line (1 main office, 2 offices are connected through ptp wifi).  Because we support 5 separate ‘companies’ that are owned by one big company, my pools have been setup to reflect this.  We also have 20 off-site locations scattered through the US that are connected to the main director, and backing up to a storage device on their local network (All connected via VPN).

 

I have a pool for each department that’s also part of one of the 5 companies.  So it comes out to 9 separate pools.  Each pool is on a different schedule to be backed up in a 24 hour period.

 

Our storage device for the 150 clients is a 1TB snapserver (plenty of room for what we need backed up).  I have run tests the last 2 weeks using a single pool of 9 machines backing up to the main storage daemon.  And it works great.

 

What I’m curious about:

Can I have all 9 of the pools backing up to 1 storage device definition?  I would have the pools set for 1 backup per pool, but want at least 5 concurrent backups to the storage device itself.  Or do I need to have Device { } separate and pointing to a different directory for each of those 9 pools to backup simultaneously?  What would be the best practice for this?

 

Juicy Tidbits:

 Bacula-sd.conf

 

Storage {                             

  Name = momus-sd

  SDPort = 9103                 

  WorkingDirectory = "/var/bacula/working"

  Pid Directory = "/var/run"

  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20

}

 

Device {

  Name = IT1

  Archive Device = /media/backup/IT1

  Media Type = File3

  LabelMedia = yes

  Random Access = yes

  AutomaticMount = yes

  RemovableMedia = no

  AlwaysOpen = no

  Device Type = File

}

 

 

Directors configuration (bacula-dir.conf)

 

Director {

  Name = momus-dir

  Description = "Client Backup Server"

  DIRport = 9101

  QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/query.sql"

  WorkingDirectory = "/var/bacula/working"

  PidDirectory = "/var/run"

  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20

  FD Connect Timeout = 5 Minutes

  SD Connect Timeout = 30 Minutes

  Statistics Retention = 5 Years

  Password = "#########"

  Messages = Daemon

}

 

Storage {

  Name = IT1

  Address = 10.0.124.43

  SDPort = 9103

  Password = "mkyt87e2"

  Device = IT1

  Media Type = File3

  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4

}

 

Pool {

  Name = "IT-Client"

  Maximum Volumes = 0

  Pool Type = Backup

  Storage = IT1

  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1

  Maximum Volume Files = 0

  Maximum Volume Bytes = 2147483648

  Volume Use Duration = 14 days

  Catalog Files = yes

  Auto Prune = yes

  Volume Retention = 14 days

  Recycle = yes

  Recycle Oldest Volume = yes

  Recycle Current Volume = no

  Purge Oldest Volume = yes

  Label Format = ""${Client}-${Level}-${Year}_${Month}_${Day}-${Hour}-"

}

 

JobDefs {

  Name = ITClientJob

  Enabled = yes

  Type = Backup

  Messages = Standard

  Pool = IT-Client

  Schedule = "IT-Client Backup"

  Storage = IT1

  Prefer Mounted Volumes = No

  Prune Jobs = no

  Rerun Failed Levels = yes

  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4

  Reschedule On Error = yes

  Reschedule Interval = 30 minutes

  Reschedule Times = 6

  Priority = 10

}

 

Thanks for your time!

 

~Jayson