Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job

2011-10-13 06:22:47
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job
From: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:19:24 +0200
On 13.10.2011 11:51, Stefan Lubitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this feature would be really great. We have three Backup serves which all 
> have single Jobs to backup (each job app. 13TB).
> The Time to despool is absolutely waste of time and could be used more 
> efficient. This feature request is more than 4 Years old and still not 
> implemented.....
> Maybe I am wrong and I am sorry to say this, but as the data volume is 
> growing all the time and this feature is still missing, I've got a notion 
> that Bacula is not anymore "up to date" or state of the art.


as with any opensource tool you are free to send in code which enables 
the feature.

or hire somebody to write it for you and the community.

or buy the bacula enterprise version and tell them you really need the 
concurrent spooling/despooling feature.

- Thomas

> James Harper wrote:
>> Is there a way to make bacula write multiple spool files per job? Two
>> would do. What I'm seeing is that 4 jobs start, all hit their spool
>> limit around the same time, then all wait in a queue until the file is
>> despooled. The despool happens fairly quickly (much quicker than the
>> spooling due to network and server fd throughput) so it isn't a huge
>> problem, but it would be better if the sd could just switch over to
>> another spool file when despooling starts so that the backup can
>> continue uninterrupted.
>
> I believe this is in the todo list, but it will happen faster if someone 
> submits already-written code.
>



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