Short version: What combination of directives will make bacula choose to use both drives defined in the autochanger at the same time?
Long version: I'm now at the next phase of implementation and want to be able to run 2 jobs concurrently. The default behavior, once concurrent jobs are enabled, is to write N jobs to the same volume, interleaving the data. I have 2 drives and want one job to run on each. The section of the manual that would seem to apply is in Configuring the Director under Maximum Concurrent Jobs: "Please note that the Volume format becomes much more complicated with multiple simultaneous jobs, consequently, restores can take much longer if Bacula must sort through interleaved volume blocks from multiple simultaneous jobs. This can be avoided by having each simultaneously running job write to a different volume or by using data spooling, which will first spool the data to disk simultaneously, then write each spool file to the volume in sequence." The bit about "have each ... write to a different volume" seems to be what I'm looking for, but I haven't found the combination of settings/attributes that achieve it. Since in other sections of the manual and FAQ it suggests that you should allow bacula to choose the volume that it wants to use, this seems counter-intuitive. I've looked at Use Volume Once, Maximum Volume Jobs and retention and recycle times directives but none of them seem appropriate. ---- Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o) 410.365.7175 (m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] alancdavis AIM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
