Hi, 18.10.2007 11:41,, Gary Stainburn wrote:: > Hi folks. > > Two related questions on job scheduling. I have a trial setup. > > I have: > > * one storeage daemon with one device storing to File > * one File device within the sd > * four pools > > I have four pools just so that the volume name prefix matches the name of the > physical location of the site being backed up. This is controlled by a > jobdefs, again one per site. > > I then add a client and a job for each computer to be backed up, quoting the > appropriate jobdef for the site the computer is on. > > This all works fine and everything backs up but as I said I have 2 scheduling > problems. > > 1) Backups occur one at once. Would it be possible to make it back up all 4 > sites simultaniously? If I defined 4 File devices within the DS would this > work?
Yes. The four devices are an important thing. Also, if you store your volumes in different locations, make sure you have distinct media types set up. (This is more or less a FAQ by now :-) > 2) If I have a client/job in listed in the director config but haven't > installed the FD yet everything seems to halt waiting for the non-existing fd > to connect to the sd. No other job can start until I cancel the hung job. > > How can I get round this? My recommended solution consists of several parts: - set up job concurrency plus spooling. Have two or more jobs run in parallel. This ensures that, during your backup windows, data is transferred most of the time and you don't waste precious time just waiting. - use a "run before job" script to ping the client. Let this job fail if the ping doesn't work. - if useful for you, reschedule failed jobs. - if useful, "rerun failed levels" to ensure full backups are actually run once in a while. Arno > Cheers > > Gary > > -- 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
