Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 10:30:16
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: terryc <terryc AT woa.com DOT au>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:23:18 -0400
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:34 AM, terryc<terryc AT woa.com DOT au> wrote:
> Silver Salonen wrote:
>
>> As one device supports only one job, you have to create separate devices for
>> each job you want to be able to run concurrently.
>
> That isn't how I understand it. I am working on having multiple clients
> feeding files into a single tape drive at the same time and expect that
> chuncks of each job will be interleaved along the tape.
>
> It should be the same for disk files, if that ishow you configure it
> (say one file for each nights jobs).
>

As long as the pool is the same more than 1 job can concurrently write
to the same volume. I have been doing that for years with tape and
disk. However if you do want more than 1 pool then with disks its best
to have multiple storage devices.

John

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