Hi Josh!. Thanks for your time and input! > The Backup job has the volume(s) opened for writing, so reading by any other job is not likely allowed until the backup job completes.
That makes sense. In my case, the Restore Job is restoring the previous day's backup, while a new Backup Job is running and Copy Jobs are transferring any missing volumes to a remote SD. The only possible conflict I see here is when both the Restore and the Copy Job try to read the same volume concurrently. For example: Volume01 → being copied by Copy Job Volume02 → being read by Restore Job AND copied by Copy Job ( possible conflict) Volume03 → currently being written by Backup Job Until I find a better approach, I'll run the Restore Job using a RunAfterJob from the Backup, and trigger the Copy Jobs via cron — both using separate Devices, in parallel. So far, this setup would require 2 Devices. On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM Josh Fisher via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > On 7/15/25 09:57, Leandro Saldivar via Bacula-users wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a client with ~2TB of data. A full backup job takes about 15 > > hours. Once the backup finishes, a Copy Job is triggered (Selection > > Type = PoolUncopiedJobs) to replicate the volume to a remote Storage > > Daemon — which takes another 15 hours per volume in the best-case > > scenario. Finally, for each backup, I run a Restore job on a replica > > server (same client setup), which adds yet another 15 hours. > > > > The trivial approach to parallelize these jobs (Backup, Copy, Restore) > > has been to define a separate Storage + Device pair for each Job. The > > only difference between them is the Name. All Devices share the same > > Archive Device path — which I'm unsure is a good practice. > > I don't believe it is possible to parallelize the Backup job with the > Copy or Restore. The Backup job has the volume(s) opened for writing, so > reading by any other job is not likely allowed until the backup job > completes. After all, the Backup job could fail at any time prior to > completion. > > It should be possible to run the Copy and Restore jobs in parallel, once > the Backup job completes, if they are started together with the same > priority and the volume is loaded into a Device that allows concurrent > jobs. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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