Hi, 29.08.2007 00:28,, Mike Eggleston wrote:: > 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.
That, too, might help. But also ensure the same priority for the jobs you want to run in parallel - Bacula will not run jobs with different priorities at the same time. >> 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... I do, too... I save about 100 GB to DLT 4000, and that's more than enough for me... Arno > 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 -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
