I'm trying to back up a relatively large filesystem (over 500G in use) that is running somewhat slow. With my previous backup software, I divided it up into multiple parallel backup jobs, and that worked. I'm trying to implement something similar with Bacula 5.2 on RHEL 6 (backing up to separate disk array).
The particular filesystem is ext3 on LVM on a SAN, and I have a script that: - logs into the server - snapshots the LVM - logs into the SAN - snapshots the volume - deletes the LVM snapshot on the server - mounts the LVM-snapshot-on-SAN-snapshot on the backup server There's also a post-backup script to unmount the snapshot and delete it from the SAN. I could split up the job with two filesets, with an include/exclude set up to split (for example, back up directories a-m in one job and n-z in the other). However, how can I get the snapshot scripts run just once, before both jobs start and after both jobs finish? I was looking at having a "parent" job that uses RunScripts to run the snapshot script, run the two jobs, wait, and then run the snap-del script, but it looks like "run" isn't an allowed console command. I have a similar issue with a Windows server, where I've split a backup into two jobs to run in parallel. The problem there is that they both show as "running", but only one actually runs at a time (the other just seems to sit there waiting, per "status client=foo" and "status storage=bar" in bconsole). Is this due to VSS? Is there something locking and only allowing one access at a time? I have raised Maximum Concurrent Jobs, so that isn't the problem. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
