2009/5/14 Jayson Broughton <jbroughton AT truecos DOT com>:
> 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?
>

Use more than 1 device since a single device can only have 1 volume
and thus 1 pool loaded. Since only 1 pool can be loaded jobs for other
pools will block stopping most of your concurrency.


John

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