On Friday 29 October 2010 03:16:13 pm Mark Gordon wrote: > Hello my question is concerning the max concurrent jobs. The backups are > going to disk on the file system. I'm running 5.02 and I have increased > the director Maximum Concurrent Jobs to 4 as well as the client > definition and storage definition within the director conf file. In the > sd.conf file I have it set to 4 under device options: > > > > Device { > > Name = FileStorage > > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4 > > > > Also note that each client has its own volumes which are separated by > job. When under the console I manually tell it to run 3 jobs. The first > job specified queues up and is given a job id. It finds the volume it > needs to write to and continues in a normal fashion. When I slate the > other 2 to run they are assigned job ids but they don't continue in the > normal fashion. Ex > > 2010-10-29 08:42:02 backup.vcity.com-dir JobId 350: No prior Full backup > Job record found. > > 2010-10-29 08:42:02 backup.vcity.com-dir JobId 350: No prior or suitable > Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup. > > 2010-10-29 08:42:04 backup.vcity.com-dir JobId 350: Start Backup JobId > 350, Job=LaReynolds.2010-10-29_08.42.02_09 > > > > 3rd job manually ran states > > 2010-10-29 08:53:23 backup.vcity.com-dir JobId 351: Start Backup JobId > 351, Job=BackupClient1.2010-10-29_08.53.21_11 > > I maybe mistaken but isn't the purpose of simultaneous jobs so that I > can write 4 different jobs to the storage pool at 1 time? I have a > client that takes 36 hours for a full and the other jobs are backing up > behind it waiting to finish. I'm trying to get around this issue. > > Thanks > Hi,
A SD device can only use one volume at a time. This could be the cause as all jobs use separate volumes. You can configure more devices to run these jobs concurrently. Regards, Machiel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users