On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Jummo <jummo AT devio DOT us> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One more question about Data Spooling and Concurrent Jobs.
>
> I have one autochanger with two tape drives. I have set Maximum Concurrent
> Jobs in the Director Resource to 4, the Maximum Concurrent Jobs in the
> Storage Resource of the bacula-dir configuration is set to 4. I schedule
> about 30 Jobs at night all with Spool Data = yes.
>
> For review of my configuration I wrote a script to save the output from
> "status dir" to a file.
>
> During the backup one copy job already run and use the first tape drive.
> In the output I can see that 4 Jobs runs concurrently (one was the copy
> job). A little bit later I noticed that 2 jobs despooling data at the same
> time. Will this means the jobs are mixed on the tape volume?
>
>
Yes that means the jobs will be interleaved on the same volume. Bacula
understands that and will have no problem restoring.
>
> bconsole > status dir
> ...
> 1376 Increme  client1.2012-08-08_23.00.00_13 SD despooling Data
> 1377 Increme  client2.2012-08-08_23.00.00_14 SD despooling Data
> 1382 Increme  client3.2012-08-08_23.00.00_19 is running
> ...
>
>
> To prevent this behaviour, should I set the Maximum Concurrent Jobs on the
> Device level to 1? But I think this will prevent the concurrent execution
> of jobs using the same device.
>
That will just prevent execution of more than 1 job.

John

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