Quoting Mike Brady <mike.br...@devnull.net.nz>:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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A log message from one of the jobs.
22-Nov 00:05 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Start Backup JobId 9587,
Job=dnsdhcp03.2013-11-22_00.05.00_06
22-Nov 00:05 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Using Device "FileDevice02" to write.
22-Nov 00:05 dnsdhcp03-fd JobId 9587: shell command: run
ClientBeforeJob "/sbin/vgcfgbackup"
22-Nov 00:05 dnsdhcp03-fd JobId 9587: ClientBeforeJob: Volume group
"vg_sys_dnsdhcp03" successfully backed up.
22-Nov 00:05 bacula03-sd JobId 9587: Job
dnsdhcp03.2013-11-22_00.05.00_06 is waiting. Cannot find any
appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: "FileDevice02" (/bacula_storage/FileDevice)
Pool: IncPool
Media type: File01
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: There are no more Jobs
associated with Volume "IncPool-0179". Marking it purged.
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: All records pruned from Volume
"IncPool-0179"; marking it "Purged"
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Recycled volume "IncPool-0179"
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-sd JobId 9587: Recycled volume "IncPool-0179" on
device "FileDevice02" (/bacula_storage/FileDevice), all previous data
lost.
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Volume used once. Marking Volume
"IncPool-0179" as Used.
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-sd JobId 9587: Elapsed time=00:00:01, Transfer
rate=10.76 K Bytes/second
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Bacula bacula03-dir 5.2.13 (19Jan13):
Build OS: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release
JobId: 9587
Job: dnsdhcp03.2013-11-22_00.05.00_06
Backup Level: Incremental, since=2013-11-21 00:05:04
Client: "dnsdhcp03-fd" 5.2.13 (19Jan13)
x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat,Enterprise release
FileSet: "dnsdhcp" 2010-07-13 23:05:01
Pool: "IncPool" (From Job IncPool override)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "FileStorage01" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 22-Nov-2013 00:05:00
Start time: 22-Nov-2013 00:05:02
End time: 22-Nov-2013 00:10:03
Elapsed time: 5 mins 1 sec
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 9
SD Files Written: 9
FD Bytes Written: 9,681 (9.681 KB)
SD Bytes Written: 10,769 (10.76 KB)
Rate: 0.0 KB/s
Software Compression: 88.3 %
VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): IncPool-0179
Volume Session Id: 2
Volume Session Time: 1385001242
Last Volume Bytes: 11,660 (11.66 KB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: No Jobs found to prune.
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: Begin pruning Files.
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: No Files found to prune.
22-Nov 00:10 bacula03-dir JobId 9587: End auto prune.
This is the pool definition.
Pool {
Name = IncPool
Pool Type = Backup
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Use Volume Once = yes
Maximum Volume Bytes = 10G
Recycle = yes
Action On Purge = Truncate
Auto Prune = yes
Volume Retention = 2 weeks
Label Format = "IncPool-"
}
There are volumes available for reuse, but new volumes can be created
if needed.
Has no one else tried to do this?
How can I get more information on why Bacula thinks that there are no
appendable volumes?
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