On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 01:23 -0800, Kevin Keane wrote:
> I'm using Bacula to back up 8 servers to a pool on a hard disk. To make 
> management somewhat easier, I configured bacula to create a new volume 
> (i.e., file) for each job. In the past, I only allowed one backup job to 
> run at a time (Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1) and everything worked 
> beautifully.
> 
> Today, I tried to speed up my backups by allowing multiple concurrent 
> backup jobs. Sure enough, the backups completed much faster - but 
> apparently multiple jobs now ended up in the same volume, despite the 
> Max Volume Jobs setting.
> 
> Is this a bug? If so, is it something that has already been reported 
> and/or fixed? I'm using 2.4.2.
> 

Hi,

It is documented, read the "Maximum Volume Jobs" description at:
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014150000000000000000

Ulrich

> Thanks!
> 
> Here are my pool declarations. All the jobs use the Full-Pool, Diff-Pool 
> or Inc-Pool as appropriate for the type of backup
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = Default
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Storage = Disk3, Disk2
>   Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
>   Recycle = yes                       # Bacula can automatically recycle 
> Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 3 months         # one year
>   # Label Format = 
> "${Client}_${Job}_${Year}${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}${Minute:p/2/0/r}${Second:p/2/0/r}_${Level}.bacula"
>   Label Format = "bacula"
> }
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = Full-Pool
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Storage = Disk3, Disk2
>   Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
>   Recycle = yes                       # Bacula can automatically recycle 
> Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 3 months         # one year
>   Label Format = "bacula-full"
> }
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = Diff-Pool
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Storage = Disk3, Disk2
>   Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
>   Recycle = yes
>   Auto Prune = yes
>   Volume Retention = 40 days
>   Label Format = "bacula"
> }
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = Inc-Pool
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Storage = Disk3, Disk2
>   Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
>   Recycle = yes
>   Auto Prune = yes
>   Volume Retention = 10 days
>   Label Format = "bacula"
> }
> 


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