Hello,

It took me some time to get the hang of baculas concurrency options but
I think I have it mostly figured out now.
The only problem remaining so far is that I have to get parallel jobs to
different pools on the same storage device working if i don't want to
rewrite my complete bacula config.

I have only one physical storage (2TB RAID-10 array) and have 1
(Storage) Device configured in the dir.conf and sd.conf.
On this Device I have several Pools with different Volume Retention
Times (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, etc) to account for the differently
scheduled jobs.
As some of my database jobs keep "blocking" the Storage Device for hours
while executing mysqldump with the ClientRunBeforeJob directive it would
be great if I could run other jobs in the meanwhile.

Is it a good idea to define multiple (dummy) Devices on the same Storage
like this or will I run into problems?

## bacula-sd.conf ###########################################
Storage {
  Name = backup1-sd
  SDAddresses = {
    ip = {
      addr = 192.168.23.42
      port = 9103
    }
  }
  WorkingDirectory = "/var/bacula"
  Pid Directory = "/var/run/bacula"
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
}

Device {
  Name = FileStorage1
  Device Type = File
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /backup/bacula
  ...
}

Device {
  Name = FileStorage2
  Device Type = File
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /backup/bacula
  ...
}

## bacula-dir.conf ##########################################
Storage {
  Name = Storage1
  Address = 192.168.23.42
  SDPort = 9103
  Password = "foo"
  Device = FileStorage1
  Media Type = File
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
}

Storage {
  Name = Storage2
  Address = 192.168.23.42
  SDPort = 9103
  Password = "foo"
  Device = FileStorage2
  Media Type = File
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
}

Pool {
  Name = 1week.Storage1
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  Volume Retention = 8 days
  Storage = Storage1
  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
  Label Format = "1week.Storage1-"
}

Pool {
  Name = 1week.Storage2
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  Volume Retention = 8 days
  Storage = Storage2
  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
  Label Format = "1week.Storage2-"
}

Thanks,

Martin

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