On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a > > disk. > > > Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each one of > them > > > has a separate device resource with one job per volume. > > > > > > The problem is that every client can run only one job at a time. I'm > backing > > > up across internet several filesets per client. One of them (userdata) may > > be > > > around 20 GB, but another (log) may be only 20 MB. Now, when userdata > runs, > > > it reserves it's device for several days as upload is only 100 KB/s so > that > > > other jobs can't use it as they have the same storage assigned - Bacula > > > notifies me with "waiting to reserve a device". > > > > > > I read "Concurrent Disk Jobs" from the manual. Do I get it correctly, that > > If > > > I want several jobs to write concurrently into the same directory, I > should > > > have a separate device (pointing to the same directory) for every job of a > > > client? > > > > The key to understanding this is to realize that a file Device is virtually > > identical to a tape device. You can have only one Volume "mounted" at a > time > > on any Device. > > > > So, if you have multiple jobs that want to write to the same Volume on any > > given Device, there is no problem, you just need to get *all* (the 5 > > different) concurrent directives set. If you want to have multiple jobs > > writing to the same Device but using different Volumes, then as in the case > > of a tape drive, subsequent jobs will wait. You can always add more > > Devices, in which case, you can have different volumes mounted on each > device > > at the same time. > > > > > > > > Silver > > Yup, then I guess I understood this correctly - that I have to have separate > device for every job, and separate storage also, right?
No. Please re-read what I wrote. That is not what I said. Perhaps the list can help you on this. > > Maybe it would save some configuration head-ache if it was possible to specify > device (as an addition to storage directive) in job's configuration? The Storage resource already has a directive to specify a Device. > > Silver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
