On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Arno Lehmann might have said: > Hi, > > 28.08.2007 23:45,, Mike Eggleston wrote:: > > I recently have moved to full disk backups and also > > scheduled a backup of the backup 'volumes' on disk > > to tape for sending offsite. All has been going well > > because the differential and incremental backups are > > small. I triggered a full backup late last week and > > the disk backups all stopped waiting for the tape > > backups to finish. > > > > I need to change the configuraton some way to allow > > disk backups to continue as scheduled regardless of > > the status of tape backups. > > > > The only way off hand I can think of is running a > > second instance of bacula, but I don't want to do > > that. > > > > Suggestions? > > Run a second instance of the job instead, i.e. duplicate the job > definition, change its name, possibly change the level, storage and > pool assigned to it. Also make sure the clients allow more than one > concurrent job.
These are individual jobs, different names and all. The tape job has a priority of 30 and the disk jobs for servers have a priority of 10 and 20 for workstations. Maybe I can modify the number of concurrent jobs in the tape job to two. > This should work, but it will not be possible to mrege data from the > two jobs, i.e. you can't restore from the newly-created full job plus > differential and incrementals from the existing jobs. > > If you expect to restore single files only, this will not be a > problem, but full system restores will need to be started with > manually selecting the jobs to restore, and might end up with > inconsistent results. > > > bacula 2.0.3 > > fedora core 5 > > just over 2TB of disk available, 1TB allocated, RAID 5 > > DLT-8000 single tape drive > > One to two TB to DLT 8000 is truly a big task... groan, I know... Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
