On Monday 22 August 2005 23:07, Jesse Keating wrote: > I'm spooling data before it gets written to tape, and I run multiple > jobs at the same time. My spool size is smaller than a single tape > size, so I have to flush the spool pretty often. Because of this each > tape can have a little bit of each job on it. My question is that if I > create a spool device that is larger than all my backup data combined, > when it comes time to despool the data, will bacula despool each job one > at a time, or will it despool the content as it came in, all at once? > Basically I'm trying to figure out a way that I can run all my jobs at > once, but the content gets written to tape one job at a time to prevent > having to use 4 different tapes to do a restore.
Multiple jobs may simultaneously spool, but only one job despools at a time all other jobs that are spooling continue spooling, all other jobs that want to despool wait their turn. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users