On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 01:23 -0800, Kevin Keane wrote: > I'm using Bacula to back up 8 servers to a pool on a hard disk. To make > management somewhat easier, I configured bacula to create a new volume > (i.e., file) for each job. In the past, I only allowed one backup job to > run at a time (Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1) and everything worked > beautifully. > > Today, I tried to speed up my backups by allowing multiple concurrent > backup jobs. Sure enough, the backups completed much faster - but > apparently multiple jobs now ended up in the same volume, despite the > Max Volume Jobs setting. > > Is this a bug? If so, is it something that has already been reported > and/or fixed? I'm using 2.4.2. >
Hi, It is documented, read the "Maximum Volume Jobs" description at: http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014150000000000000000 Ulrich > Thanks! > > Here are my pool declarations. All the jobs use the Full-Pool, Diff-Pool > or Inc-Pool as appropriate for the type of backup > > Pool { > Name = Default > Pool Type = Backup > Storage = Disk3, Disk2 > Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 > Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle > Volumes > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes > Volume Retention = 3 months # one year > # Label Format = > "${Client}_${Job}_${Year}${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}${Minute:p/2/0/r}${Second:p/2/0/r}_${Level}.bacula" > Label Format = "bacula" > } > > Pool { > Name = Full-Pool > Pool Type = Backup > Storage = Disk3, Disk2 > Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 > Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle > Volumes > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes > Volume Retention = 3 months # one year > Label Format = "bacula-full" > } > > Pool { > Name = Diff-Pool > Pool Type = Backup > Storage = Disk3, Disk2 > Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 > Recycle = yes > Auto Prune = yes > Volume Retention = 40 days > Label Format = "bacula" > } > > Pool { > Name = Inc-Pool > Pool Type = Backup > Storage = Disk3, Disk2 > Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 > Recycle = yes > Auto Prune = yes > Volume Retention = 10 days > Label Format = "bacula" > } > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
