Re: [Bacula-users] Not blocking on both SDs together

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

2010/11/30 Matthew Seaman <ms...@sq...>:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a setup with two storage director machines at different
> locations.  Most of the clients are in one hosting center, and use the
> local SD, while several are scattered at various locations around the
> net and use the other SD. There's a single director driving all this,
> and one catalogue for everything.
>
> One annoying feature we've noticed is that should the 2nd SD block
> [which has happened due to filling up a partition] it holds up all
> backups to the 1st SD.  Is there any way of avoiding this effect?  I
> can't see why a failure backing up client X to SD 2 should prevent
> client Y from backing up to SD 1.
>

This is not the default behavior. I mean I have no problems running
concurrent jobs to 1 or more storage devices. Have you allowed
concurrent jobs?

John