Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?

2009-12-11 16:29:33
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Continue to spool to disk when tape is full?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:26:44 -0500
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com> 
> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>

Is simultaneous spooling / despooling in bacula yet? I thought that
was not yet implemented.

What I have seen is if there is no appendable volume in the device
(and its not an autochanger that can load new volumes) the next time
it needs to spool will be blocked.

John

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