Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 14:22:02
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: John Lockard <jlockard AT umich DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:16:03 -0400
> I stand somewhat corrected.  I was wrong in stating
> that priority of a job on a certain media blocked
> only jobs on that media.  It actually blocks all other
> lower priority jobs from running no matter whether the
> lower priority job is on the same media or not.
>
I find this makes priorities not that useful for me.

Have you thought of using concurrency and a small (2 to 5GB) spool
file and scrap the priorities. I am unsure why you only want 1 job per
tape drive. Are your drives really slow such that 1 client backup will
be faster than the tape can handle?

John

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