Silver Salonen schrieb: > PS. The limit to be able to write only one job to one disk-based device has > been a bizzare limit that just complicates the configuration, I still don't > understand why we have this limit in disk-based backups (the claim "Bacula > uses disks as tapes" is just as bizzare). > > I seem to be writing to disk based volumes just fine with multiple (5+) concurrent jobs.
Maybe i am misunderstanding something, but the problem isnt N jobs to 1 (disk based) volume, it is 1-N jobs to M (>1) volumes at the same time which doesnt work. Also, one pool can only use one volume at one time for one job, and one job can only use one SD at one time, so that might limit you too. Concurrent jobs (except for me currently, and only to tape) work quite nice. I personally opted to use spooling, in order to not have jobs interleaved on tape. But speaking of configuration complication, for me it complicates things that valid jobs (for comparing with Full, Diffs and Incrementals) are generated out of {Client,Fileset}and there is no way to tell it to use {Client,Fileset,Storage} or {Client,Fileset,Pool}.. for creating offsite backups i basically keep 2 identical filesets for every class of client because i want / need two unrelated backups on 2 different media types (no, copy jobs wont do because they are 2 different SDs).. Anyways, i am rambling, but multiple concurrent jobs to one disk volume work fine, as long as your jobs use the same pool and are allowed to use the same volume. If you try to use different pools ( -> different volumes) for different jobs, then yes, they will wait till the SD can mount a volume in the second pool. -- Christian Gaul otop AG D-55116 Mainz Rheinstraße 105-107 Fon: 06131.5763.310 Fax: 06131.5763.500 E-Mail: christian.g...@otop.de Internet: www.otop.de Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Christof Glasmacher Vorstand: Dirk Flug Registergericht: Amtsgericht Mainz Handelsregister: HRB 7647 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users