Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Running Multiple Jobs at once

2012-08-02 10:41:29
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Running Multiple Jobs at once
From: Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerkamp AT nionex DOT net>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:38:58 +0200
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:32:04AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:

> 
> The manual does describe all of the steps necessary although maybe not
> in one single place.
> 
> At minimum you need to set "Max Concurrent Jobs" for the director,
> storage and possibly client resource of bacula-dir.conf. Also remember
> that a single storage device (even a disk) can only load 1 volume at a
> time. So that if you have multiple jobs going to different volumes you
> can not use a single storage device. Also you need to have all jobs at
> the same priority if you want to run them concurrently. If jobs are at
> different priorities they will preempt jobs at lower priorities.
> 
> John
> 

If you only have a couple of clients with long backup times, I'd
suggest creating a completely separate storage, device and pool
definition for each. 

Cheers, Uwe 

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