Bacula-users

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

2008-04-27 12:14:29
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] storage's maximum concurrent jobs
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:11:55 -0400
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Marc Schiffbauer <marc AT schiffbauer DOT net> 
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).
>
>  -Marc
>
>
>
>  >
>  > I'm running Bacula 2.2.8 on FreeBSD. In bacula-dir.conf, there's a storage
>  > configured with "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 6":
>  > Storage {
>  >         Name = storage-myclient
>  >         Address = 192.168.100.1
>  >         SDPort = 9103
>  >         Password = "storage-password"
>  >         Device = device-myclient
>  >         Media Type = files-server
>  >         Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 6
>  > }
>  >
>  > A client using this storage has multiple jobs:
>  > Job {
>  >         Name            = myclient-hansaraama
>  >         JobDefs         = default-myclient
>  >         FileSet         = myclient-hansaraama
>  >         Schedule        = WeeklyFull
>  >         Full Backup Pool                = pool-myclient-hansaraama-full
>  >         Differential Backup Pool        = pool-myclient-hansaraama-diff
>  >         Incremental Backup Pool         = pool-myclient-hansaraama-incr
>  >         Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/myclient-hansaraama.bsr"
>  > }
>  > Job {
>  >         Name            = myclient-hansaraama-backup
>  >         JobDefs         = default-myclient
>  >         FileSet         = myclient-hansaraama-backup
>  >         Schedule        = WeeklyFull
>  >         Full Backup Pool                = 
> pool-myclient-hansaraama-backup-full
>  >         Incremental Backup Pool         = 
> pool-myclient-hansaraama-backup-incr
>  >         Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/myclient-hansaraama-backup.bsr"
>  > }
>  >
>  > But when I run two of these simultaneously, the first starts running, but 
> the
>  > other "is waiting on Storage storage-myclient".
>  > Running Jobs:
>  >  JobId Level   Name                       Status
>  > ======================================================================
>  >   2915 Full    myclient-hansaraama.2008-04-27_12.32.03 is running
>  >   2916 Full    myclient-hansaraama-backup.2008-04-27_12.32.05 is waiting on
>  > Storage storage-myclient
>  > ====
>  >
>  > Is there something wrong with storage's Maximum Concurrent Jobs?
>  >
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