Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] storage's maximum concurrent jobs

2008-04-27 11:34:58
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] storage's maximum concurrent jobs
From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:33:43 +0200
Hi,

27.04.2008 12:55, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
> * Silver Salonen schrieb am 27.04.08 um 11:40 Uhr:
>> Hi.
> 
> Hi Silver,
> 
> I only can say that I am very interested in a solution, too. Since
> concurrent jobs never worked for me as well...
> 
> I also have set the appriate settings in all parts of the config.
> Concurrent jobs do not even work in my situation where two different
> clients want to backup to two different storages through the same
> director. Like so
> 
>   Job1 on Client1 -> Storage1 (tape)
>   Job2 on Client2 -> Storage2 (disk)
> 
> do never run in parralel. Job2 *always* waits for Job1 to finish. 
> (Both jobs use a different scheduling which start the jobs at the
> same time but with different attributes (tape jobs uses spooling,
> the disk job does not)
> 
> I guess either this is a bug in bacula or its documentation or the
> concurrent jobs feature is not about eally running jobs in parallel
> and bacula does not support this feature at all (yet).

Hardly. Look here:

xxx-sd Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) i686-redhat-linux-gnu redhat 
Enterprise 3.0
Daemon started 26-Apr-08 21:36, 49 Jobs run since started.
  Heap: heap=856,064 smbytes=827,978 max_bytes=923,737 bufs=193 
max_bufs=195
Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 int32_t=4 int64_t=8

Running Jobs:
Writing: Full Backup job AAA JobId=14408 Volume="001047L2"
     pool="Weekly" device="ULTRIUM" (/dev/nst0)
     spooling=1 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
     Files=799,883 Bytes=35,360,564,636 Bytes/sec=2,319,333
     FDReadSeqNo=7,658,240 in_msg=5261479 out_msg=5 fd=8
Writing: Full Backup job BBB JobId=14415 Volume="001047L2"
     pool="Weekly" device="ULTRIUM" (/dev/nst0)
     spooling=1 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
     Files=46,187 Bytes=24,804,087,260 Bytes/sec=3,250,863
     FDReadSeqNo=1,157,459 in_msg=1019579 out_msg=5 fd=11
Writing: Full Backup job CCC JobId=14417 Volume="001047L2"
     pool="Weekly" device="ULTRIUM" (/dev/nst0)
     spooling=0 despooling=1 despool_wait=0
     Files=18,962 Bytes=30,602,870,006 Bytes/sec=8,860,124
     FDReadSeqNo=627,144 in_msg=572259 out_msg=5 fd=12
====

As you see, three jobs run in parallel; two of them currently spooling 
data, one is despooling to tape.

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
www.its-lehmann.de

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