I asked this question a couple of months ago and didn't get a response, but have seen a few sort of similar questions lately and thought that I would ask again before trying this in production.
I have a disk based pool and want to run concurrent backups to this pool. I am currently running backups one job at a time to this pool, but doing the backups this way is starting to take too long. A number of the jobs have runscripts that take a while (a couple of hours in one case) to run. During the time that these scripts are running the Bacula server is doing nothing. I realize that I could configure a separate pool/device for some or all of these jobs and get concurrency that way, but this would complicate copy jobs that run later, hence my desire to do concurrent backups to the same pool. I found this example http://toshine.org/etc/bacula-concurrent-jobs-multiple-storage-devices-client-labeled-pools-debian-installation-configuration/ where multiple devices are configured that use the same disk based pool. This does seem to work in that I do get the desired number of concurrent jobs running, but I get varying numbers of the following messages each time the schedule is run. 20-Nov 00:05 bacula03-sd JobId 9569: Job pfsense03.2013-11-20_00.05.00_31 is waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "FileDevice04" (/bacula_storage/FileDevice) Pool: IncPool Media type: File01 The jobs that I get the messages for vary each time. The job does retry after 5 minutes and normally runs then. Occasionally I will get a second message for a job, but it always retries and I can not remember ever having a job that didn't run successfully eventually. There are always volumes available. Either existing appendable volumes or capacity with in the pool to create more volumes. I am using the bacula 5.2.13 packages from http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/epel-6/x86_64/ on Centos 6.4. Is this approach of having multiple devices utilising the same disk based pool a valid approach to doing concurrent backups or is it not supposed to work? I am happy to provide the full configuration files or any other information that may be required. Thanks Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
