On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Jummo <jummo AT devio DOT us> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use backup to disk to backup my clients and I hit the slow restore
>> problem when backup jobs run concurrently and use the same storage
>> device/volume. The backup window is small and therefore jobs must run at
>> the same time.
>>
>> My first intention was to create for each client a dedicated storage
>> device, similar like [1]. With this configuration each backup job is saved
>> on a sperated volume, no mixups and slow restore is gone. But the
>> configuration overhead is huge and for a new client I have to restart the
>> storage daemon.
>>
>> During my web search I found the configuration of mashdot [2]. He use four
>> generic storage devices and use _all_ four in the Job Resource
>> configuration.
>>
>> Job {
>> ...
>>    Storage = 
>> PrimaryFileStorage,SecondaryFileStorage,TertiaryFileStorage,QuaternaryFileStorage
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> It's possible to define more than one storage device and the jobs will
>> select automatically the next free one until all are in used? I couldn't
>> find anything about this in the official documentation or in mailing list
>> archives.
>>
>
> No
>
I meant not with bacula alone.

I recommend you use a disk virtual autochanger to achieve this.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/

John

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