> OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to
> be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it?
>
This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way.

>
> Anyway, the "1 volume at a time"-limit has always been "one job at a time" in
> my head, because I put every job into separate volume/file (which makes the
> most sense in disk-based backups, to my mind). And when 5.0 was released with
> possibility to change limits of concurrent jobs for a device, I thought:
> "That's what I've been waiting for!". Thus the confusion. Sorry :)
>

Add more disk storage devices. There is no limit to the number of
these. They can all point to the exact same physical disk location.
Install the bacula vchanger to make managing this simpler.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/

John

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