Arno,
thanks for your reply.
Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 14.04.2008 23:59, Attila Fülöp wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm facing the following problem:
>>
>> One Win2k3 client with 3 different jobs. Since neither the network link
>> nor the cpu and io on the client machine are saturated I wanted to run
>> this three jobs concurrently. This would effectively triple the backup
>> speed.
>>
>> This works, the director reports all three jobs running as the the fd
>> on the client machine does.
>>
>> The problem is, only the first job transfers data, the two other jobs
>> are just sitting around, doing nothing (at least nothing obvious). So I
>> wonder if this is intended behaviour or a misconfiguration/bug.
>
> Well, I do know that jobs from one client can run in parallel.
That is good to know.
>> I tested with both 2.0.3 and 2.2.8 windows clients backing up to 2.0.3
>> FreeBSD director/storage daemon. I tested with VSS turned of also.
>
> VSS might prevent that, though. I'm not sure, but I believe it's not
> so useful to try and create several VSS snapshots of one volume at the
> same time.
Yes, it is VSS related. I did a mistake in disabling VSS (commenting
out "Enable VSS = "yes"" instead of setting it to "no").
If two jobs access data on the same volume they can't run concurrently
if VSS is enabled. They can run concurrently if either VSS is disabled
or they access data on different drives.
Well this won't help me much since 2/3 of my data is located on the
same volume. Since I now know the problem now I'm going to open a new
thread on this subject.
Tanks for your help.
Attila
>> Actually with this behaviour the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" directives
>> in the "FileDaemon" resource of the client file daemon and the "Client"
>> resource of the director does not make much sense. If I configure 3
>> concurrent jobs on a client I would expect them all to transfer data.
>>
>> If anyone has a clue what's going on I would appreciate any feedback.
>> I would also be grateful if someone could hint me how to achieve what
>> I intended by other means.
>
> If they all should go to the same storage device, you've got to enable
> job concurrency there, too. In the global director configuration also,
> but that seems to be on already.
>
> What do 'sta dir' and 'sta sd' report when these jobs run but don't
> transfer data?
>
> Arno
>
>> Thanks
>> Attila
>>
>>
>>
>> DIR: status dir
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Running Jobs:
>> JobId Level Name Status
>> ======================================================================
>> 6885 Full Win2k3.2008-04-14_22.49.51 is running
>> 6886 Full Win2k3-Home.2008-04-14_22.50.39 is running
>> 6887 Full Win2k3-Grafik.2008-04-14_22.51.34 is running
>> ====
>>
>> CLIENT FD:
>> ~~~~~~~~~~
>> Win2k3-fd Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) VSS Linux Cross-compile Win32
>> Daemon started 14-Apr-08 22:44, 0 Jobs run since started.
>> Heap: heap=0 smbytes=176,063 max_bytes=201,747 bufs=246 max_bufs=296
>> Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=1
>>
>> Running Jobs:
>> JobId 6885 Job Win2k3.2008-04-14_22.49.51 is running.
>> VSS Backup Job started: 14-Apr-08 22:50
>> Files=60,344 Bytes=21,151,588,104 Bytes/sec=10,076,983 Errors=0
>> Files Examined=60,344
>> Processing file: xxxxxx
>> SDReadSeqNo=5 fd=656
>> JobId 6886 Job Win2k3-Home.2008-04-14_22.50.39 is running.
>> VSS System or Console Job started: 14-Apr-08 22:50
>> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0 Errors=0
>> Files Examined=0
>> SDReadSeqNo=3 fd=664
>> JobId 6887 Job Win2k3-Grafik.2008-04-14_22.51.34 is running.
>> VSS System or Console Job started: 14-Apr-08 22:50
>> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0 Errors=0
>> Files Examined=0
>> SDReadSeqNo=3 fd=680
>> ====
>>
>> ls -l /var/spool/bacula
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> sd.data.6885.Win2k3.2008-04-14_22.49.51.ArcVaultDrive.spool
>>
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