Re: [Bacula-users] One Bacula server with multiple tape libraries
2008-08-27 13:08:07
> If I well understood in last Bacula release should be possible to define
> more than one
> multi-drive autochanger into the configuration file, and I hope that I
> could execute more
> than one backup job at the same time.
>
Both are possible and easy to do.
>
> My doubts are a little deeper:
> 1) if I execute a backup job on a tape that stays into slot 5 of library
> 2, when I start a
> restore command of some data from that tape, is it Bacula able to
> find the right media
> in the right slot of the right library and put it into one drive of
> that same library? Or does
> it start always from the first drive of the whole list like some
> commercial tools ?
>
Yes.
>
> 2) is it possible, in general, to execute a multistream backup (I mean a
> backup that is
> split on many drive in parallel as You can do with Oracle R-man
> allocating multiple sbt
> channels at the same time as we tested in past with 16 drivers in
> parallel) ??
>
No. Bacula does not do that. But you can split your fileset into more
than 1 job and run them concurrently.
>
> 2a) and if Yes, could we split this job on multiple drivers that are
> installed on different libraries ??
>
> Thanks in advance for the answer
> Best regards
>
John
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