Hello folks!

Long time Bacula User here, pure bliss. So far I "only" backed up my
personal servers and machines at home, but right now I am trying to
backup our company servers (300+).

I wrote scripts to add the clients to the server - everything just works
(tm).

Just one thing. Simultaneous backups. And I know where its going down
the drain. Some minor infor offhand:

Every Server...

- Should back up at 2 am in the morning,
- With a full on sat 2 am,
- max concurrent jobs is 10, so once a "slot" is freed, the next one
jumps in,
- Every Server has its own two pools: hostname-daily and hostname-weekly.
- They are all backing up to our bacula-sd server.

Config example for one server:

Pool {
  Name = server1-daily
  Pool Type = Backup
  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
  Use Volume Once = yes
  Catalog Files = yes
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  Volume Retention = 15 days
  Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
  Label Format = server1-daily-
  Maximum Volumes = 16
}

Pool {
  Name = server1-weekly
  Pool Type = Backup
  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
  Use Volume Once = yes
  Catalog Files = yes
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  Volume Retention = 15 days
  Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
  Label Format = server2-weekly-
  Maximum Volumes = 4
}

Client {
  Name = server1
  Address = x.x.x.x
  FDPort = 9102
  Catalog = MySQL
  Password = "..."
}

Job {
  Name            = "Backup Host: server1"
  client          = "server1-fd"
  type            = backup
  messages        = Standard
  storage         = bacula-sd
  pool            = server1-daily
  Level           = Incremental
  FileSet         = "linuxserver"
  Schedule        = "server1"
  Write Bootstrap = "/backup/bootstraps/server1.bsr"
  Priority        = 25
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
}

Schedule {
  Name = "server1"
  Run = Level=Incremental Pool=server1-daily on SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
at 02:00
  Run = Level=Full Pool=server2-weekly on SAT at 2:00
}




Storage Config:

Storage {
  Name = bacula-sd
  SDPort = 9103
  SDAddress = x.x.x.x
  WorkingDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula"
  Pid Directory = "/var/run"
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
}

Device {
 Name = StoreNode-01
 Media Type = File
 Archive Device = /backup
 LabelMedia = yes;
 Random Access = Yes;
 AutomaticMount = yes;
 RemovableMedia = no;
 AlwaysOpen = yes;
 Maximum Network Buffer Size =  "65536"
}

Device {
 Name = StoreNode-02
 Media Type = File
 Archive Device = /backup
 LabelMedia = yes;
 Random Access = Yes;
 AutomaticMount = yes;
 RemovableMedia = no;
 AlwaysOpen = yes;
 Maximum Network Buffer Size =  "65536"
}

[up to StorageNode-10]




Director:

Director {
  Name = bacula-dir
  DIRport = 9101
  QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/query.sql"
  WorkingDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula"
  PidDirectory = "/var/run"
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
  Password = "..."
  Messages = Daemon
}


Storage {
  Name = bacula-sd
  Address = 172.20.53.207
  SDPort = 9103
  Password = "VWfHvmlLUcy2GmcyJFltkdPlkFYDta"
  Device = StorageNode-01
  Media Type = File
}




Now, everything works, but all but one client is stuck at the "waiting
for storage", which as I read is due to the fact that one Device can
only mount one Volume for the storage director.

What I want is that the Storage-D can write to 10 files at once (yes,
the hardware CAN do this).

I am open for alternate approaches to this matter.

What I can't do is mix server data from several servers into "one" file.
Disaster Recovery (bextract) would be hell (among other legal issues).

I even tried to generate a Storage Entry for the director for each file,
so that every Server has its own Device, but I can't redeclate the
Storage config.

I can't assign multiple Devices to the Storage Entry in the director.



Oh, running 2.4.4 here - don't ask :)

ANY help is gladly appreciated.

-Christian


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