On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Graham Keeling<graham AT equiinet DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:09:32PM +0200, Marcin Radczuk wrote:
>> I'm trying use bacula more than a month. I have more than 2000 hosts to
>> backup. We want to do everyday backup. One Full backup per month and
>> Incrementals every other day. Now I have 10 bacula-sd and one bacula-dir
>> and I was add only 300 hosts to schedule. I automated hosts add to
>> bacula-dir, and I have one config file per host. Every host have his own
>> Job, Pool and Fileset in his config. Problem is that bacula can do one
>> backup per bacula-sd. I use Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 900 but I have one
>> Pool per host and bacula can't run another job on bacula-sd if other job
>> is running. Is that mean that I must do one pool per sd? We use Linux
>> machine (Debian Eatch/Lenny) on SD, FD and DIR. How can I boost bacula
>> performance?
>
> I had similar problems. I had to define 'Maximum Concurrent Jobs' in many
> places to get it to work.
>
> Currently, I have it like this:
> bacula-dir.conf:
>        Director { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; }
>        Storage { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; }
>        Client { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; }
>        Job { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1; }
> bacula-fd.conf:
>        FileDaemon { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; }
> bacula-sd.conf:
>        Storage { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; }
>

Also I would enable and use spooling even on disks. I recommend to use
a small (1 to 10GB) spool size and have the spool drives to be a raid
0 that is not on the same drives as the main storage.

John

John

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