On 9/13/07, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In the Bacula User's Guide I discovered, in Chapter 12.1 (The Client
> Resource), that the Maximum Concurrent Jobs default value is 2:
>
> > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = <number> where <number> is the maximum number of
> Jobs that should run concurrently. The default is set to 2, but you may set
> it to a larger number. Each contact from the Director ( e.g. status request,
> job start request) is considered as a Job, so if you want to be able to do a
> status request in the console at the same time as a Job is running, you
> will need to set this value greater than 1.
> >
I am not sure but I do not believe the console counts.
>
> However, in the sample File Daemon configuration file (bacula-fd), a Maximum
> Concurrent Jobs value is set to 20. That's an order of magnitude more than
> 2. Wow that's a big difference!
>
> Here's an example after a fresh configure / make install on my Xserve:
>
> > #
> > # "Global" File daemon configuration specifications
> > #
> > FileDaemon { # this is me
> > Name = xserve-fd
> > FDport = 9102 # where we listen for the director
> > WorkingDirectory = /opt/local/var/bacula/working
> > Pid Directory = /opt/local/var/run
> > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
> > }
> >
>
> I am curious, is the documentation outdated and should the default value
> really be 20? Is there possibly a typographical error where "2" meant to be
> typed as "20"? Did the core Bacula maintainers (Kern, et al?) change their
> mind based on real world user experiences from a default of 2 to 20?
>
It probably is 20 but to enable concurrency with a client you must
also set Maximum Concurrent Jobs in the client section of the
bacula-dir.conf file. In that section the default is 1 so without
changing the settings you will not get any concurrency.
John
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