Hi!
I was just thinking:
In the next few days, I'll be configuring a 10 drive, and 245 tapes, LTO-4
autochanger....... I mean, 10 drives, at ~120MB/s each drive...... well....
a LOT of speed. I don't think it makes sense to configure *all* these
drives on the same server (I mean, the network is 1Gb, ~100MB/s, assuming
the servers/switchs can handle it), so, even if I setup the concurrent jobs
correctly, it still doesn't make sense to configure all the drives on the
same server, because there will not be enough network speed to fully use
them. So, it would be nice to have a way of either:
+ Configure one or more drives on *different* servers, and have bacula
contact the *autochanger server* (which, off course, will have some tapes
connected to it) in order to ask for a the tape load for *other* server.
Or:
+ Make it possible to use several IPs on the same SD server, so that bacula
can have different clients connect to different SD IP (well, actually the
same machine). I know there are ways of "bonding" several ethernet
interfaces into a "faster one", but this requires a switch that support that
feature. With current servers, there should not be problem for them to
handle several 1Gb interfaces.
Any comments are wellcome.
c-ya!
Ildefonso Camargo
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