On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:34:27 John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee> 
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >> On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote:
> >> > I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions?
> >>
> >> I ran into this problem when I first upgraded to 3.0.3.  It turned out
> >> to be a configuration issue.  Make sure you have the desired level of
> >> concurrency enabled in ALL applicable resources (i.e, you need "Maximum
> >> Concurrent Jobs = 20" set for the SD both in your bacula-sd.conf file
> >> AND in your bacula-dir.conf file).  If you have different values set in
> >> different places, the *lowest* will end up being used.
> >
> > Do I get it right, that you have multiple jobs using the same device
> > concurrently?
> >
> 
> I have had this work for over 5 years with bacula. Jobs need to go to
> the same volume however because a storage device can only load a
> single volume. I use tape mostly so I do not see this as a big issue.
> I have a multi-drive autochanger that takes care of using different
> volumes concurrently.

OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to 
be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it?

Anyway, the "1 volume at a time"-limit has always been "one job at a time" in 
my head, because I put every job into separate volume/file (which makes the 
most sense in disk-based backups, to my mind). And when 5.0 was released with 
possibility to change limits of concurrent jobs for a device, I thought: 
"That's what I've been waiting for!". Thus the confusion. Sorry :)

-- 
Silver

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