On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:20:15 +0000, keith wrote:
> We have about 80 virtual servers running on 20 Physical servers that
> need backed up.
>
> Our Bacula implementation is now at scheduling stage and we are stuck
> trying to figure out how to get the virtual servers to backup without
> them all running concurrently overwhelming the physical servers that
> they are on.
>
> Our current plan is to have just one Schedule that will start at 1am
> then we will give each virtual server a unique priority, We plan to 
> give
> the the first Job a priority of 5 then the next 10 and on.....This 
> seems
> a messy but I can't see any other way to stop or limit the number of
> virtual servers on the same physical server from running at the same 
> time.
>
> There must be other people with load of virtual servers that have the
> same issues. This has probably been that forth or fifth email that I
> have written to this group. I've never sent the previous ones as I 
> 've
> always found a solution before sending the email, but this time I'm
> stuck. It seems that the people that make Bacula what it is have 
> though
> of everything and I'm just hoping there an elegant solution to my 
> problem.
>
> Any help is really appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Keith

Maximum Concurrent Jobs could probably save you lot of time.

HTH.
Jérôme Blion.

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