On 03/16/10 10:30, Rodrigo Fernandes wrote: > It's really necessary to create more than 1 bacula-fd to control the > jobs? (How can I do that. I can use any port?). I think to set the "Max > Concurrent Jobs" in bacula-dir and bacula-fd to 100 and limit the "Max > Concurrent Jobs" in bacula-sd to the number of jobs that I really need, > considering the problem with incremental backup.
You don't have to have multiple FDs. In particular, there is little point in having multiple FDs on a single host. Doing so generally will not gain you anything. In your position, if you have no other constraints, try simply setting the concurrency to the levels required to support all of your clients. You may find, after a first test run, that you need to do additional tuning to manage the load, possibly by dividing the clients into groups with staggered startup times or staggered priorities. But there is no one-size-fits-all universal answer for large deployments. What will work best for you is heavily dependent on what you have to work with. For instance, in a hypothetical situation where you're backing up to a large SAN with extremely high throughput, you may find that you are CPU or network bound on a single FD while having plenty of I/O capacity left on the SAN, and in such a case it may be beneficial to set up multiple independent FDs on different servers, all using the same SAN as their storage backend. As another example, if it turns out that you are I/O or CPU bound on your Catalog database, you may need to establish multiple Catalogs on different hosts and spread the clients across them. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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