Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] When does bacula use multiple tape drives

2014-03-31 12:17:33
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] When does bacula use multiple tape drives
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd AT denx DOT de>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:58:58 +0200
Dear John,

In message <CAEhu1-6BLDpXhGvzWaU+hqB2QH_TkDfL-ybOVP52CoPGZ6CVGA AT mail.gmail 
DOT com> you wrote:
>
> > bacula seems to only use one drive.  What determines in bacula when it is
> > optimal to use two drives?  I am using bacula Version: 5.2.13.  Additionally
> > I have set "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4" in all the relevant places, but all
> > this seems to do is allow multiple concurrent jobs run, which I have tested
> > and seems to work, but strangely, I was under the impression that one job
> > could write to one tape exclusively.  But in this case, it seems multiple
> > jobs can write to the same tape concurrently or is this not correct?  Lastly
> > I have specified spool directory, however it is never used.  Any ideas here
> > would be appreciated or clarity.
> 
> Bacula can write to more than 1 drive at a time. However I believe by
> default bacula can not load the same pool into more than 1 drive at a
> time.

Yes, it can.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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