>>>>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:51:13 -0500, Glen Barber said:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Bacula version 2.4.3 on a machine with a single tape
> drive, and on occasion the tape will become full overnight.  'status
> dir' shows the following:
> 
>     server1.YYYY-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS is waiting on max Storage jobs
> 
> Since the machine has plenty of space to spool the data, I'd like to
> continue to spool to disk when the tape is full so despooling to tape
> can take place when the tape is changed.
> 
> I have the following Maximum Concurrent Jobs set:
> 
>     bacula-dir.conf:   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
>     bacula-sd.conf:   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 30
> 
> If I understand the documentation correctly, raising dir.conf Maximum
> Concurrent Jobs will interleave multiple backups to tape, which I want
> to avoid.  Is there something obvious I've missed in the
> documentation, or is Bacula expected to stop spooling to disk when the
> tape is full?

The latter -- it stops because it can't simultaneously read and write the
spool file.

__Martin

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