On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Chris Rodgers wrote:
> > Effectively the same thing.
>
> Do you mean that Bacula has opened a file with a particular name in that
> directory ("mounted a tape") and is stuck writing to that one file???
Kind of The wedged jobs are effectively causing the same thine.
>>> Ba
Alan Brown wrote:
>>> "waiting to reserve a device" means that all available tape drives are
>>> in use by jobs using other Pools.
>>
>>
>> What does it mean when the "tape device" is actually a hard disk
>> directory with different files in there, one for each "tape"?
>
>
> Effectively the same
Alan Brown wrote:
>> You might configure concurrent jobs as a solution.
>
>
> It won't help in this situation and the message tends to indicate
> concurrent jobs are setup.
I don't think they are. My config file
(http://laplace.chem.ox.ac.uk/b/bacula-dir.conf) contains this block:
Director {
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Erich Prinz wrote:
>
> You might configure concurrent jobs as a solution.
It won't help in this situation and the message tends to indicate
concurrent jobs are setup.
"waiting to reserve a device" means that all available tape drives are
in use by jobs using other Pools.
In
Chris Rodgers wrote:
> Chris Rodgers wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have any ideas what is causing bacula to jam up like this?
>>
>>I'm sorry if I have provided too much information, but I don't have any
>>real idea which parts of the configuration/etc. may be to blame.
>
>
> That's what used to happen
Chris Rodgers wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas what is causing bacula to jam up like this?
>
> I'm sorry if I have provided too much information, but I don't have any
> real idea which parts of the configuration/etc. may be to blame.
That's what used to happen before I added the line
# Timeo
You might configure concurrent jobs as a solution.
That way, if one client is off-line, it doesn't hold up the whole
show for the other jobs. Otherwise, the jobs will queue and wait
patiently for the device to become available.
Erich
On Jan 3, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Chris Rodgers wrote:
> Does
Does anyone have any ideas what is causing bacula to jam up like this?
I'm sorry if I have provided too much information, but I don't have any
real idea which parts of the configuration/etc. may be to blame.
Thanks,
Chris.
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Dear all,
I have bacula (bacula-mysql-1.38.2-1.rpm) installed on a Redhat FC4
system (Linux lilac.home 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:14 EDT
2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux).
Bacula is set to back up various systems, including another PC on my
home network. Backups are saved to hard disk s
