Dear Josh I am running concurrent backups to a Firewire attached 1 TB disc with he Max Concurrent Jobs set to 5 ( in my situation it seems the optimal value ).
The Incremental jobs stay on the disc for 6 weeks but the Full backups are migrated to tape. I also have the problem with slow clients - usually they are running a long simulation program when they are being backed up. I have not had a problem with the interleaved blocks - when the data is migrated to tape the Job interleaving is "removed". OK it can take some time to write the Full backups to tape. I am using 2.0.3 since rease and the 1 TB disc for 2 weeks. Regards Stephen Carr Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007 21:22, Josh Fisher wrote: >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> On Monday 09 April 2007 16:20, Josh Fisher wrote: >>> >>>> There's no reason they cannot use the same pool. They just cannot write >>>> to the same volume concurrently. With a tape device, that would be a >>>> problem because there can only be one volume in the tape drive. >>>> >>> True. >>> >>> >>>> However >>>> with a disk device, a volume is a file, so there can be numerous volumes >>>> being written concurrently. >>>> >>> This is not true within Bacula. For each Device (tape, DVD, disk, > FIFO, ...) >>> Bacula has a single file descriptor thus only one Volume can be open for > each >>> Device, whether tape or disk. Multiple jobs can be simultanously writing > to >>> that Volume. However, since a Volume can be in only one Pool, and since > you >>> can only write to one Volume per Device, you can only be simultaneously >>> writing to one Pool per Device. >>> >>> To simultaneously write to more than one Pool, you need multiple Devices. >>> >>> >> Yes. I guess I didn't phrase that very carefully. I believe Kyle has two >> pools, "local_pool" and "remote_pool", and each pool is using a >> different Storage resource by specifying Storage= in the Pool resource >> definition. I assume the Storage resources are pointing to two different >> SD devices. > > OK. > >> In that case, specifying Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 in both of >> the pools should prevent the possibility of interleaving. > > That's not the best way to resolve the problem, and is likely to fail because > of subtle timing problems if you are running two jobs simultaneously. > > To prevent interleaving of blocks, either restrict the number of simultaneous > jobs for that Device using any number of methods such as priorities, Max > simultaneous jobs for the Storage,... , or use Spooling. > >> A volume from >> local_pool can be written concurrently with a volume from remote_pool, >> but only one job at a time can write to a local_pool volume and only one >> job at a time can write to a remote_pool volume. >> >>>> One way is to use Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 in >>>> the Pool resource definition. This will cause a new volume (ie. file) to >>>> be used for each job that is run. >>>> >>>> Kyle Tucker wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have a new Bacula 2.0.2 setup and I am backing up to >>>>> disk. I have remote clients that are very slow to backup and >>>>> often prevent my more important local clients from being backed >>>>> up due to concurrency being set to 1 as I don't want to get into >>>>> the issues with interleaving as it's suggested to avoid in the >>>>> warning section on concurrent jobs. >>>>> I already have things so my remote clients are in separate >>>>> pools and I understand I can set these pools into separate Device >>>>> resources and Bacula will allow 2 concurrent jobs to run. Is there >>>>> a way that I can limit the 2 concurrent jobs to not run within the >>>>> same pool, causing the interleaving blocks issue? I looked at using >>>>> priorities, but that didn't look like it would control what I am >>>>> trying to do here. 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