Hello. I'm using bacula 5.0.3 since november 2010. Now i'm facing problem with my backup jobs. We have a mail server that also runs bacula-fd and i have to backup it, but this computer has very large file system partitions. Bacula have to backup about 310 gigabytes of data on full backup. Right now i'm facing problem that full backup does not fit my Max Run Time which is 42 hours (17280000 seconds). On full backup mail server goes first and when doing full backup bacula started to terminate mail server full backup jobs and all other server do not have their full jobs started. Of course i can lower its priority and crank Max Run Time to something like 5 days, but i think it is not right solution for my problem.
And here is my question: how I can parallelize backup jobs execution? I have following setup: 3 pools for full, differential and incremental jobs. Maximum concurrent jobs are set to 20 in bacula-{dir,sd}.conf, but when scheduled jobs are executed they run consequentially, one starts, then it finishes and another one is launched for exection. All pool backup data is stored on NFS share which is the signle device that is connected to bacula-sd. Why my jobs are not concurrent? According documentation (26.2 Concurrent Disk Jobs) jobs could run simultaneously, but in fact it is not. I want bacula to write simultaneously into one volume, not in separate volumes. Soon I will add from 5 ti 10 heavy loaded servers with big filesystems to my current 9 client and I would like to backup them concurrently. bacula-dir.conf: ... director { name = bacula-dir dirport = 9101 queryfile = "/usr/lib/bacula/query.sql" working directory = "/var/lib/bacula" pid directory = "/var/run" maximum concurrent jobs = 20 password = "XXXXXX" messages = Daemon } jobdefs { name = "job defaults" type = backup level = incremental fileset = "Full Set" schedule = "monthly cycle" storage = disk-storage pool = "full pool" full backup pool = "full pool" differential backup pool = "diff pool" incremental backup pool = "incr pool" priority = 10 write bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c.bsr" messages = Standard # 48 hours max run time = 1728000 } schedule { name = "monthly cycle" # Full backup on each even month run = full February,April,June,August,October,December 1st sun at 22:05 run = differential 2nd-5th sun at 22:05 run = incremental mon-sat at 22:05 } storage { name = disk-storage address = 172.20.20.29 sd port = 9103 password = "ХХХ" device = backup-disk-device media type = File } bacula-sd.conf: ... storage { name = bacula-sd sdport = 9103 working directory = "/var/lib/bacula" pid directory = "/var/run" maximum concurrent jobs = 20 heartbeat interval = 30 sec } device { name = backup-disk-device media type = File archive device = /var/backup label media = yes # lets Bacula label unlabeled media always open = yes automatic mount = yes # when device opened, read it random access = yes removable media = no } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users