Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-18 Thread Brady, Mike
On 2014-11-19 12:46, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Brady, Mike > wrote: > >> On 2014-11-19 08:52, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > Do you have "prefer mounted volumes" set to no in your jobs > definition? It is recommended if you are using multi

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-18 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hi Mike, On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Brady, Mike wrote: > On 2014-11-19 08:52, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > >>> Do you have "prefer mounted volumes" set to no in your jobs > >>> definition? It is recommended if you are using multiple devices > >>> and > >>> one pool. > >> > >> I do not hav

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-18 Thread Brady, Mike
On 2014-11-19 08:52, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: >>> Do you have "prefer mounted volumes" set to no in your jobs >>> definition? It is recommended if you are using multiple devices >>> and >>> one pool. >> >> I do not have this set because of the warnings against it in both >> the manual and one o

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-18 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Brady, Mike wrote: > On 2014-11-16 05:36, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> Despite that the white paper tell us about having "Maximum Concurrent >> Jobs = 1" in device configuration. I think this could make sense when >> using stand alone devices in

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-18 Thread Brady, Mike
On 2014-11-16 05:36, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Despite that the white paper tell us about having "Maximum Concurrent > Jobs = 1" in device configuration. I think this could make sense when > using stand alone devices in a group as you have in the white papers. > When using autocha

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-18 Thread Brady, Mike
On 2014-11-16 02:12, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 11/14/2014 6:17 PM, Brady, Mike wrote: >> First of all thanks to Kern and Bacula Systems for making the "Best >> Practices for Disk Based Backup" and "Disk Back Design" documents >> available. >> >> I have been playing around with the best way for doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-15 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hi Mike, Despite that the white paper tell us about having "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" in device configuration. I think this could make sense when using stand alone devices in a group as you have in the white papers. When using autochangers, it is much better you use the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-15 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/14/2014 6:17 PM, Brady, Mike wrote: > First of all thanks to Kern and Bacula Systems for making the "Best > Practices for Disk Based Backup" and "Disk Back Design" documents > available. > > I have been playing around with the best way for doing concurrent > backups for a while and these docu

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-15 Thread Brady, Mike
On 2014-11-15 20:45, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Unfortunately, I no longer have the time to help people debug usage > problems, which I actually enjoy doing, but the other users on this > Bacula email list should be able to help you resolve this. I do have a > few remarks: > Thanks for taking the time

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Unfortunately, I no longer have the time to help people debug usage problems, which I actually enjoy doing, but the other users on this Bacula email list should be able to help you resolve this. I do have a few remarks: 1. There is no reason to set the VolumePoolInterval to anything other than th

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-14 Thread Brady, Mike
On 2014-11-15 12:17, Brady, Mike wrote: > First of all thanks to Kern and Bacula Systems for making the "Best > Practices for Disk Based Backup" and "Disk Back Design" documents > available. > > I have been playing around with the best way for doing concurrent > backups for a while and these docum

[Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-14 Thread Brady, Mike
First of all thanks to Kern and Bacula Systems for making the "Best Practices for Disk Based Backup" and "Disk Back Design" documents available. I have been playing around with the best way for doing concurrent backups for a while and these documents have helped my understanding considerably.

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups to a single disk based pool

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Brady
Quoting Mike Brady : > 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 > poo

[Bacula-users] Concurrent backups to a single disk based pool

2013-11-19 Thread Mike Brady
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 b

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups using spooling

2012-02-16 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'm re-instating my bacula system after an althernative system failed. > Unfortunately the config files I have are not the right version and I can't > get concurrent backups working again. > > I have 30+ workstations and 10+ se

[Bacula-users] Concurrent backups using spooling

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. I'm re-instating my bacula system after an althernative system failed. Unfortunately the config files I have are not the right version and I can't get concurrent backups working again. I have 30+ workstations and 10+ servers all backing up to 3 storage devices. I used to be abel to h

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread Nico Halpern
Andreas, This really depends on your configuration. If you have only one drive head, you should set "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 6" (or any number your want) in your job definitions. If you have multiple drive i/o heads, you have to also configure your job definition to prefer mounted volumes to

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread terryc
Attila Fülöp wrote: > Andreas Schuldei wrote: >> hi! >> >> reading the documentation i understand that you should have several >> volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i >> work on disk for now.) >> >> However some people here on the list seem to be doing well with >> c

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread user100
On 25.06.2009 14:10, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2009 13:42:30 Andreas Schuldei wrote: >> hi! >> >> reading the documentation i understand that you should have several >> volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i >> work on disk for now.) >> >> However s

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:34 AM, terryc wrote: > Silver Salonen wrote: > >> As one device supports only one job, you have to create separate devices for >> each job you want to be able to run concurrently. > > That isn't how I understand it. I am working on having multiple clients > feeding files i

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread Attila Fülöp
Andreas Schuldei wrote: > hi! > > reading the documentation i understand that you should have several > volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i > work on disk for now.) > > However some people here on the list seem to be doing well with > concurrent backups to only on

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread terryc
Silver Salonen wrote: > As one device supports only one job, you have to create separate devices for > each job you want to be able to run concurrently. That isn't how I understand it. I am working on having multiple clients feeding files into a single tape drive at the same time and expect tha

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:42:30PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > hi! > > reading the documentation i understand that you should have several > volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i > work on disk for now.) > > However some people here on the list seem to be doing

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 25 June 2009 13:42:30 Andreas Schuldei wrote: > hi! > > reading the documentation i understand that you should have several > volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i > work on disk for now.) > > However some people here on the list seem to be doing well wi

[Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread Andreas Schuldei
hi! reading the documentation i understand that you should have several volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i work on disk for now.) However some people here on the list seem to be doing well with concurrent backups to only one volume. is that actually true or am i

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to a single disk volume

2009-04-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:15:18PM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > Hi folks, > > the recent talk here of a bug relating to concurrent writes to a > single backup volume has made me a bit uneasy about one of our > production bacula servers. > > We have one system with two tape libraries (so no sin

[Bacula-users] concurrent backups to a single disk volume

2009-04-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, the recent talk here of a bug relating to concurrent writes to a single backup volume has made me a bit uneasy about one of our production bacula servers. We have one system with two tape libraries (so no single volume is used by two backups at the same time), however the other system

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups to disk

2007-12-10 Thread Foo Bar
--- John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, a number of my questions regarding using VSS, OpenSSL encryption > and > > rescue CDs has gone unanswered, does noone have experience with these > or > > have I offended someone? I'm trying to Google and read the manual as > much > > as possib

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups to disk

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Foo Bar wrote: > Hi, > > according to the manual, you need to create more devices for concurrent > backups to disk since Bacula regards everything as tapes, so a single > Device will block until each individual job to it is finished. I don't use disks, but bacula regards disk

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups to disk

2007-12-06 Thread John Drescher
> BTW, a number of my questions regarding using VSS, OpenSSL encryption and > rescue CDs has gone unanswered, does noone have experience with these or > have I offended someone? I'm trying to Google and read the manual as much > as possible before giving up and posing the question here, if the answ

[Bacula-users] Concurrent backups to disk

2007-12-06 Thread Foo Bar
Hi, according to the manual, you need to create more devices for concurrent backups to disk since Bacula regards everything as tapes, so a single Device will block until each individual job to it is finished. I'm a little unclear on what new sections I need though, presumable a number of 'Device

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 18 November 2005 17:11, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When it locks up, please get me a traceback as described in the > > Kaboom chapter > > of the manual. Make sure you do not strip the binaries during > > installation so that the symbol t

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-18 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When it locks up, please get me a traceback as described in the Kaboom chapter of the manual. Make sure you do not strip the binaries during installation so that the symbol tables will be accessible ... It doesn't happen very often, but when it does,

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:44, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You have multiple storage devices with the same Media Type pointing to > > the same directory, which means that if you run concurrent jobs, you can > > have two threads writing to the s

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-17 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You have multiple storage devices with the same Media Type pointing to the same directory, which means that if you run concurrent jobs, you can have two threads writing to the same file (Device:Volume), each with a different i/o packet (Device) thinking

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
You have multiple storage devices with the same Media Type pointing to the same directory, which means that if you run concurrent jobs, you can have two threads writing to the same file (Device:Volume), each with a different i/o packet (Device) thinking it "owns" the volume. This will result in

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-17 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: Hi ! Luke Dean wrote: Last month I reported a problem where my system would hang whenever I ran multiple concurrent jobs that backup to a single RAID array after upgrading from bacula 1.36.2 to 1.36.3. This problem still persists in 1.38.1. I`

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-17 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! Luke Dean wrote: Last month I reported a problem where my system would hang whenever I ran multiple concurrent jobs that backup to a single RAID array after upgrading from bacula 1.36.2 to 1.36.3. This problem still persists in 1.38.1. I`m still using 1.37.40 but since you seem to hav

[Bacula-users] concurrent backups to disk still hangs in 1.38.1

2005-11-16 Thread Luke Dean
Last month I reported a problem where my system would hang whenever I ran multiple concurrent jobs that backup to a single RAID array after upgrading from bacula 1.36.2 to 1.36.3. This problem still persists in 1.38.1. I've got one director, four clients, four backup jobs (one per client),

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
- From: "Arno Lehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups Hello, Arunav Mandal wrote: We have 150 clients to backup everynight and I am u

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Arunav Mandal wrote: We have 150 clients to backup everynight and I am using 1TB as spool. All setup is on linux. I can see now only one client is doing backups at any given time. How can I do multiple backups at same time. First: Multiple concurrent jobs work here, so I assume they c

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
al Message - From: "Thomas Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups Arunav Mandal wrote: We have 150 clients to backup everynight a

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Arunav Mandal wrote: > We have 150 clients to backup everynight and I am using 1TB as spool. All > setup is on linux. I can see now only one client is doing backups at any > given time. How can I do multiple backups at same time. You need job concurrency on the Storage daemon and the Director se

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Simmons
Arunav Mandal wrote: We have 150 clients to backup everynight and I am using 1TB as spool. All setup is on linux. I can see now only one client is doing backups at any given time. How can I do multiple backups at same time. Do you have "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" set?. In bacula-dir.conf this n

[Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
We have 150 clients to backup everynight and I am using 1TB as spool. All setup is on linux. I can see now only one client is doing backups at any given time. How can I do multiple backups at same time. -- Arunav Mandal - amandal at trolltech.com ---