Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-21 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:02:48AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > >> > Running Jobs: > JobId Level Name

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: >> Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status =

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > Just to be certain, I kicked off a few OS jobs just prior to the > > transaction log backup. I also changed the Storage directive to use > > "Maximum Concurrent Jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > > > Running Jobs: > > > JobId Level Name Status > > > == > > > 11239 In

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > > Just to be certain, I kicked off a few OS jobs just prior to the > transaction log backup. I also changed the Storage directive to use > "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" for FileStorage. This forces only one OS > job at a time. > > I

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:37:06PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > > > Here is an example from yesterday. Job 11174 is the transaction logs. > > > The others are OS jobs I ran manually from bconsole. > > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > Here is an example from yesterday. Job 11174 is the transaction logs. > > The others are OS jobs I ran manually from bconsole. > > > > Running Jobs: > > JobId Level Name Status > > ==

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:56:38AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> They don't. Previously, the OS backups and the log backups each had >>> their own pool on the same storage device (tape drive). Recently, the >>> OS backups have used their own

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:56:38AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > They don't. Previously, the OS backups and the log backups each had > > their own pool on the same storage device (tape drive). Recently, the > > OS backups have used their own pool on a File device instead.

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:51:58AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: >>> >>> Jason Dixon wrote: > I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:51:58AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > > > >> Jason Dixon wrote: > >> > >>> I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS backup jobs are already > >>> running, the client-initiated

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS backup jobs are already >>> running, the client-initiated transaction log jobs are forced to wait. >>> >>> >> Then you prob

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-19 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > > I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS backup jobs are already > > running, the client-initiated transaction log jobs are forced to wait. > > > Then you probaby still had a Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:41:10PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> If you are using a single tape drive, you will have an issue. >> >> One thing you could theoretically do is configure the storage daemon, >> storage resource, job, and pool all for multiple concurrent jobs. T

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-19 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:41:10PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > If you are using a single tape drive, you will have an issue. > > One thing you could theoretically do is configure the storage daemon, > storage resource, job, and pool all for multiple concurrent jobs. The > bacula manual explains

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Keane
If you are using a single tape drive, you will have an issue. One thing you could theoretically do is configure the storage daemon, storage resource, job, and pool all for multiple concurrent jobs. The bacula manual explains how to do that. But I'm not sure if that really gives you the results