Re: [Bacula-users] Disk volume management - catalog<>disk discrepencies

2010-05-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 18/05/2010 6:19 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Craig Ringer > wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> I've been having a lot of problems with Bacula's disk volume management >> over time. Most issues seem to stem from cases where the catalog gets >> out of sync with the file sys

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk volume management - catalog<>disk discrepencies

2010-05-18 Thread John Drescher
>> I've been having a lot of problems with Bacula's disk volume management >> over time. Most issues seem to stem from cases where the catalog gets >> out of sync with the file system, like: >> >> - Volume inserted into catalog, creation of file on disk fails, volume >>  remains in catalog >> >> -

[Bacula-users] Disk volume management - catalog<>disk discrepencies

2010-05-17 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi folks I've been having a lot of problems with Bacula's disk volume management over time. Most issues seem to stem from cases where the catalog gets out of sync with the file system, like: - Volume inserted into catalog, creation of file on disk fails, volume remains in catalog - Write to vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk volume management.

2009-03-25 Thread John Drescher
> A similar issue I was recently thinking about.  In the end it came down to > wanting to be able to run multiple concurrent backup jobs and a single pool > would result in all but 1 job waiting for the storage device to be > available. > I am confused at this statement. I mean if you put all volum

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk volume management.

2009-03-25 Thread Brian Debelius
The manual say you can concurrently write. In my testing this week, I have been concurrently writing to the same pool and volume. "You can, in fact, run multiple concurrent jobs using the Storage definition given with this example, and all the jobs will simultaneously write into the Volume tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk volume management.

2009-03-25 Thread John Drescher
> I am playing with disk volumes right now.  I have a full pool set up to > create volumes with 4G maximum volume size.   I could set up a full pool > that everything is written to, or I could set up a full pool per client, > or set up a full pool based on some other criteria.  Unless I would have

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk volume management.

2009-03-25 Thread Todd Rowe
A similar issue I was recently thinking about. In the end it came down to wanting to be able to run multiple concurrent backup jobs and a single pool would result in all but 1 job waiting for the storage device to be available. see: http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SEC

[Bacula-users] Disk volume management.

2009-03-25 Thread Brian Debelius
I am playing with disk volumes right now. I have a full pool set up to create volumes with 4G maximum volume size. I could set up a full pool that everything is written to, or I could set up a full pool per client, or set up a full pool based on some other criteria. Unless I would have some