Is there a way to make bacula write multiple spool files per job? Two would do. What I'm seeing is that 4 jobs start, all hit their spool limit around the same time, then all wait in a queue until the file is despooled. The despool happens fairly quickly (much quicker than the spooling due to network and server fd throughput) so it isn't a huge problem, but it would be better if the sd could just switch over to another spool file when despooling starts so that the backup can continue uninterrupted.
I'm spooling to internal RAID, then despooling to external USB. While spooling isn't really advised when the backup target is a disk, doing it this way means I can run multiple jobs at once without causing interleaving in the backup file (single sd volume) or severe filesystem fragmentation (if one sd volume per job). Internal RAID writes at ~100MB/second while the USB disk writes at ~30MB/second so it turns out to be a pretty effective way to do what I want except that despooling is causing a bottleneck. Any suggestions? Thanks James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users