Hi John,
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:
> 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.
>
I don't necessarily mean "simultaneous" - in my scenario, the
despooling was not possible.
> 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.
>
Bacula is capable of only one spool file, it seems?
I suppose a more specific question would be "can I have Bacula close a
spool file if it cannot despool, and write to tape when it is
available?"
Regards,
--
Glen Barber
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