On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:44, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/11/2006 1:31 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm testing Bacula 1.38.9 on Gentoo 2006.1 and I'm a little confused here. > > > > What I would like to achieve is to be able to run a job concurrently with the > > same job's different levels. > > Tricky, IMO. > Mostly because I don't know if it will work as you expect, but a simple > test case could confirm that. > > > For example, when there's a full backup running for a week, it'd be possible > > to run incrementals or differentials at the same time (based on the last > > successful full backup), > > I do think that, if you have a full job running, any jobs of a different > level would be upgraded to a full because the last full job available is > not terminated Ok. I didn't check the source or try it, though. > > > > so that I wouldn't lose that week's differentials > > (that will run right after the full backup completes, but then there wouldn't > > be much use of them, would there?). > > > > So I have to enable at least 2 concurrent jobs for the job, right? > > That sounds correct. > > >The problem > > is that every job can have only 1 Device (through Storage) assigned to it, so > > it isn't actually possible to run the same job concurrently as Device doesn't > > have the "maximum concurrent jobs" directive. > > > > Can my goal be achieved in some other way? > > Yes. Either use different pools (which you might do anyway beause of the > different retention times) and assign a storage device to the pools. > This works only with 1.39.something, though. > Or use a job override in the schedule, forcing the backups of different > levels to different devices. That works with 1.36., perhaps also older > versions, which I know because I did it long enough :-) > > Arno
Hi again. I took up testing it again so here are my results. I tried the 2nd option as I'm using Bacula 1.38.9, but I couldn't get 2 jobs to run into the same directory simultaneously. I set up a schedule that would start differential backup 2 minutes after full backup (16:16 and 16:18) and that would override Storage. I checked "status client" periodically during the full backup and I didn't see that the differential job had started. Differential started, when full job eventually finished (16:35). Did I misconfigured something? Would you please assist me? :) Silver Configuration (only these things that matter to my mind ;) ====== bacula-dir ====== Director { ... Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 } Client { Name = btest-fd Catalog = MySQL ... } Schedule { Name = "WeeklyCycle2Storages" Run = Level=Full Storage=storage-btest-full thu at 16:16 Run = Level=Differential thu at 16:18 } Storage { Name = storage-btest Device = device-btest Media Type = files-btest ... } Storage { Name = storage-btest-full Device = device-btest-full Media Type = files-btest ... } JobDefs { Name = default-btest Client = btest-fd Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 Storage = storage-btest ... } Job { Name = btest-test JobDefs = default-btest FileSet = test Schedule = WeeklyCycle2Storages Full Backup Pool = pool-btest-full Differential Backup Pool = pool-btest-diff Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/btest-test.bsr" } Pool { Name = pool-btest-diff ... } Pool { Name = pool-btest-full ... } ====== bacula-sd ====== Storage { ... Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 } Device { Name = device-btest Media Type = files-btest Archive Device = /backup/bacula/btest ... } Device { Name = device-btest-full Media Type = files-btest Archive Device = /backup/bacula/btest ... } ====== bacula-fd ====== FileDaemon { ... Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 } ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users