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

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> 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?"
>

Looks like that is item #14 on the projects list.

http://bacula.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=bacula/bacula;a=blob;f=bacula/projects;hb=HEAD

If you do not know the projects list is a list of submitted feature
requests that generally get voted on before each major release and the
results of the vote steer the developers on what is most important to
users.

John

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