On 03/09/10 09:06, Matija Nalis wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:31:41AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Why don't you try this (I'm assuming you're backing up to disk, as you
>> didn't specify):
>>
>> Set up three Storage devices on your Storage daemon, and three Pools,
>> each tied to one of the Storage devices.  So you have Pool A on Storage
>> device A, Pool B on Storage device B, Pool C on Storage device C.  (They
>> can all point to the same physical disk pool.  That's OK.)  Assign the
>> clients from group A to use pool A, group B to pool B, group C to pool
>> C.  Then set maximum concurrency to 50 on Storage C, and to 1 on Storage
>> A and B.  To achieve the same effect, you could use the same basic setup
> 
> 
> Thanks Phil, that's a great idea ! 
> 
> Unfortunately, we're backing up to several LTO drives, and as far as
> I've seen so far it seems that the tapes don't like being shared by
> several storage devices (or can bacula 5.x now handle that OK ?)

You're correct, you can only have one Storage device pointed at a tape
drive.  So that idea won't work.

Do you have enough disk to spool A and B jobs to disk, then migrate them
to tape?




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