Re: [Bacula-users] Running 2 backup jobs simultaneously

2017-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 03/08/2017 10:32 AM, Jan Stefanovic wrote: > My boss really wants to backups finish before Monday morning! Then are you sure your bottleneck is disk writes and that running two of those in parallel will solve it? -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.b

Re: [Bacula-users] Running 2 backup jobs simultaneously

2017-03-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Jan, No, just setting the maximum concurrent jobs will not start any jobs. It is either you manually, with the bconsole run command, or more commonly the Schedule for your Job(s) that will determine when a job starts.  Basically just setu

Re: [Bacula-users] Running 2 backup jobs simultaneously

2017-03-08 Thread Jan Stefanovic
Thank you, Kern!!! So I’ll change to Max jobs back to 20, but will that start 2 jobs simultaneously? My boss really wants to backups finish before Monday morning! Still don’t know what’s the trick. BTW, I love your Bacula! Unbelievable stable and friendly… except for setting up 2 backups runnin

Re: [Bacula-users] Running 2 backup jobs simultaneously

2017-03-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Jan, This is not a good configuration.  In general, for your situation, you should set Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 everywhere.  Only if your schedule tries to start more than two jobs at a time, or if there is some critical reason to severely limit t