On 05/03/10 08:35, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:16 AM,  <mangabbs AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm using Bacula  Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu over
>> Gentoo Linux. I've upgraded to be able to use some new features such as
>> "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for devices. Actually it seems to does not work (at
>> least for me!). If I start 2 different jobs at the same time the 2nd is 
>> waiting
>> to reserve a drive.
>>
>> If I try to get status for storage from bconsole during the jobs I get:
>>
>> Running Jobs:
>> Writing: Full Backup job BACKUP-vps-serverone JobId=742 Volume="VOLUME-Full-
>> vps-serverone-0362"
>>    pool="POOL-FULL-vps-serverone" device="bkp12-disk" (/bacula)
>>    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>>    Files=1,634 Bytes=34,226,389 Bytes/sec=2,139,149
>>    FDReadSeqNo=13,839 in_msg=9397 out_msg=5 fd=5
>> Writing: Full Backup job BACKUP-vps-servertwo JobId=743 Volume="VOLUME-Full-
>> vps-serverone-0362"
>>    pool="POOL-FULL-vps-servertwo" device="bkp12-disk" (/bacula)
>>    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>>    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>>    FDSocket closed
>> ====
>>
>> Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
>>   3608 JobId=743 wants Pool="POOL-FULL-vps-servertwo" but have Pool="POOL-
>> FULL-vps-serverone" nreserve=0 on drive "bkp12-disk" (/bacula).
>> ====
>>
> 
> The problem is each job uses a different pool and only 1 volume can be
> loaded in a device at a time so the second job has to wait.

If it's a hard requirement that the two jobs use separate pools, you
could create a second disk storage device on the same physical device.

You could also possibly look into using the vchanger.


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