On 06/28/2011 04:38 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > It isn't necessary. jbod1-drive-1, jbod1-drive-2, etc. are virtual > drives. The ArchiveDevice path in each virtual drive contains a symlink. > The symlink is created by vchanger to point to the folder containing the > volume file that is to be used. Any of the virtual drives may be > "loaded" with a volume from any of the "magazines" (ie physical drives).
Ah, ok... so all these months I have been looking at this the wrong way! I didn't realize bacula was telling me what "virtual drive" it was using, I thought it was telling me what drive bacula "thinks" it was writing to! Thank you for clearing that up for me! So, if I understand what you are saying, I should leave the "Autochanger" config in my bacula-sd file, and I can remove the 16 "Device" entries in my SD file? > It is possible for all 16 of your virtual drives to be simultaneously > writing to different volume files on the same physical drive. > What this is telling you is that you are not running jobs > concurrently, so they are all using SD device jbod1-drive-1. I most definitely want to run jobs concurrently! Once in production I will be backing up a 200-300 machines! I thought I had configured bacula correctly for this as I am pretty sure I saw multiple jobs running at the same time.. Maybe they were, but they were using the same "virtual disk"? How do I get bacula to write data using more than one virtual drive? I have all my config files set to 20 for concurrent jobs, but evidently the jobs are all using the same VD and not multiple VD's. What am I missing? Thank you for your help and a great explanation of what's going on! mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
