On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way.

It's like assuming that the "ultimate" backup-devices are tapes. And as I 
don't think that way, it's so annoying these design decisions rely on 
somebody's (emotional/historical) opinion.

What's the use of treating all the devices the same way anyway? Ease of 
programming? Even though it makes this part of the whole project so rigid?

> > 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 :)
> >
> 
> Add more disk storage devices. There is no limit to the number of
> these.

Yes, well, that's the problem. When I really need concurrent jobs, I've done 
that, but it seems so weird, redundant.

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