Re: [Bacula-users] Error while trying to span tapes

2005-07-01 Thread Jay Lawrence
I just set this up and am generally having success. I do find that label commands seem to hang mysteriously from time to time. I am still coming up to speed with having a virtual autochanger now ... Question - are you running bacula-sd as root? Jay On 1-Jul-05, at 4:36 PM, Richard White wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Spanning drives

2005-06-22 Thread Jay Lawrence
With some help... you need some funny scripting for this to work, or you need to wait. This is one of the features that are on Kerns to-do-list, but not yet implemented in the development version. See Kern's mail "Re: [Bacula-devel] concurrent jobs with multiple-drive autochanger" on bacula-dev

Re: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-22 Thread Jay Lawrence
Actually I re-read the docs. It says that upping the max concurrent jobs in the director is good - and they will be despooled exclusively one by one to tape. Cool - I will do that tonight and see how goes. Jay On 22-Jun-05, at 5:11 PM, Jay Lawrence wrote: One thing that would be super

Re: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-22 Thread Jay Lawrence
One thing that would be super desirable I have a bunch of clients (5 so far) that I wanna back up however If the tape fills up, all the remaining jobs block waiting for the tape to be free worst case The first client blocks - four 4 remaing jobs block until we can shove in a new tape

Re: [Bacula-users] FAQ I am sure - more than one storage device

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Lawrence
ia type - or is there somewhere I should be reference both Storage or Device declarations? Thanks in advance (again!) Jay On 9-Jun-05, at 2:53 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, Jay Lawrence wrote: I tried to research the docs and the list - but I just can't quite get it. At my site, I

[Bacula-users] FAQ I am sure - more than one storage device

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Lawrence
I tried to research the docs and the list - but I just can't quite get it. At my site, I have a lot more to backup than a single tape can handle. It would be nice to get bigger drives - but the more cost effective solution right now is to use several smaller tape drives. Is it possible to hav