Sebastian Lehmann schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mo 08.09.2008 15:54 schrieb Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>:
> 
>> On Monday 08 September 2008 16:47:19 Christoph Litauer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is it possible to backup and restore data in parallel when using
>>> File
>>> devices?
>>>
>>> My problems is, that some of my backups take big amounts of time (3
>>> days
>>> because of a slow network connection). Starting a restore in
>>> parallel
>>> leads to "RestoreFiles.2008-09-08_15.38.44 is waiting on Storage
>>> Files".
>>> My setup is to allow concurrent backups to File device which works
>>> like
>>> a charm during backup.
>>>
>>> Output of status storage is:
>>>
>>> --------------
>>> Running Jobs:
>>> Writing: Full Backup job sun2 JobId=20148 Volume="File-0571"
>>>      pool="Default" device="FileStorage" (/storage)
>>>      spooling=1 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>>>      Files=73,342 Bytes=1,239,082,954 Bytes/sec=1,832,962
>>>      FDReadSeqNo=639,961 in_msg=451631 out_msg=5 fd=6
>>> Writing: Full Restore job RestoreFiles JobId=20150 Volume=""
>>>      pool="Default" device="FileStorage" (/storage)
>>>      spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>>>      Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>>>      FDSocket closed
>>> ====
>>>
>>> Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
>>> 3602 JobId=20150 device "FileStorage" (/storage) is busy (already
>>> reading/writing).
>>> --------------
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems as the RestoreFiles job is waiting for _writing_ instead of
>>> _reading_?
>>>
>>> Did I miss anything? Thanks a lot in advance!
>>
>> To my mind the limitation was that devices cannot have concurrent
>> connections.
>> So yeah.. backup- and restore jobs have to share that 1 possible
>> connection.
>>
> We made it with a trick. We use a file auto changer, (virtual
> autochanger). We then have two devices and several virtual tapes. Now it
> is possible to backup and restore at the same time from a file-device.
> Only one restriction is, that you can not use the same virtual tape for
> backup and restore at the same time.

Thanks a lot, this would help! Would you please send your 
bacula-sd.conf? Or parts of it?
Thanks in advance!

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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