Item: Allow writing to multiple volumes concurrently on file-type devices Origin: Silver Salonen (sil...@ultrasoft.ee) Date: 15.Mar.2010 Status:
What: Currently Bacula allows only one volume to be written per device. For file-type devices (eg. HDD) it would make sense to allow writing multiple files/volumes concurrently. Why: For file-type devices it makes the most sense (at least to me) to use one job per volume (file) to get the best overview of the existing jobs, to rotate them and manage them in any other way. When using this type of configuration, currently one needs as many Bacula devices as many jobs one wishes to run concurrently. Or virtual changer has to be used. Allowing writing multiple volumes concurrently would let the configuration be simpler and more optimized. Notes: For backwards-compatibility it would make sense to add a new option for the limit (eg. "Maximum concurrent volumes"?) and set it to 1 by default. The limit would also need "Random Access = yes". -- 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
