Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting on max storage jobs

2008-10-14 00:03:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] waiting on max storage jobs
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Dave Poirier <dpoirier AT mesd.k12.or DOT us>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:58:29 -0400
Dave Poirier wrote:
> Brand spankin new to Bacula... I like what I see so far.
> I googled and looked through the archives and couldn't find anything 
> helpful. Anyway, I have a autochanger with 4 AIT-3 drives but it seems 
> if I start multiple jobs it will only run one job on the first drive and 
> any job after will sit with a status of "waiting on max storage jobs".  
> I guess I expected the behavior to start any subsiquent jobs on the 
> other three drives. Am I wrong in my thinking? I suspected that perhaps 
> "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" would have something to do with it, but that 
> is set to four... So I'm stumped and looking for some help... Any 
> suggestions?

Read the section on concurrent jobs (I'm sure there is one, but I 
haven't checked recently).  Then realize that the SD and the FD also 
have similar settings for the number of concurrent jobs they can run.  I 
suggest you need to set a value on the SD, at least.

> 
> Bacula version 2.0.3 on Centos 5.2, the RPM is from the EPEL Repository.
> 
> bacula-dir.conf
> 
> Director {                            # define myself
>   Name = bacula-dir
>   DIRport = 9101                # where we listen for UA connections
>   QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/query.sql"
>   WorkingDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula"
>   PidDirectory = "/var/run"
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4
>   Password = "XXXX"         # Console password
>   Messages = Daemon
> }
> 
> bacula-sd.conf
> 
> Storage {                             # definition of myself
>   Name = bacula-sd
>   SDPort = 9103                  # Director's port     
>   WorkingDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula"
>   Pid Directory = "/var/run"
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
>   Heartbeat Interval = 30 sec;
> }



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