Arno Lehmann schrieb: > Hi, > > On 6/2/2006 9:00 AM, Christoph Litauer wrote: >> Dear bacula users, >> >> I currently backup about 15 linux/windows servers to a LTO streamer. For >> increased restore speed I want no parallel (interleaving) backups on the >> tapes. So I set "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" of the tape storage to 1. >> >> On the other hand, collecting data should happen in parallel on all >> clients. So I set "SpoolData = yes" and "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" in the >> sections "Director", "FileDaemon" (in clients bacula-fd.conf) and >> "Storage" (bacula-sd.conf) to 20. >> >> I expected the clients to spool in parallel but despooling sequential. >> But the clients wait for each other doing the backups on after another. >> Did I miss something? > > Not exactly, but there's another solution to your needs. > > Activate spooling and allow multiple concurrent jobs. In this case, the > data for one job will be written to tape consecutively (at least the > amount that is spooled). Despooling happens per job, so during > despooling there's only data from one job at a time going to tape.
This was a important hint, thank you. Setting "Concurrent Jobs" to 20 everywhere does what I wanted to. -- Regards Christoph ________________________________________________________________________ Christoph Litauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Koblenz, Computing Center, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer Postfach 201602, 56016 Koblenz Fon: +49 261 287-1311, Fax: -100 1311 PGP-Fingerprint: F39C E314 2650 650D 8092 9514 3A56 FBD8 79E3 27B2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
