On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote: > > OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to > > be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it? > > > This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way.
It's like assuming that the "ultimate" backup-devices are tapes. And as I don't think that way, it's so annoying these design decisions rely on somebody's (emotional/historical) opinion. What's the use of treating all the devices the same way anyway? Ease of programming? Even though it makes this part of the whole project so rigid? > > Anyway, the "1 volume at a time"-limit has always been "one job at a time" in > > my head, because I put every job into separate volume/file (which makes the > > most sense in disk-based backups, to my mind). And when 5.0 was released with > > possibility to change limits of concurrent jobs for a device, I thought: > > "That's what I've been waiting for!". Thus the confusion. Sorry :) > > > > Add more disk storage devices. There is no limit to the number of > these. Yes, well, that's the problem. When I really need concurrent jobs, I've done that, but it seems so weird, redundant. -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
