[Bacula-devel] Director { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = X; }

[Carsten P. <ca...@ca...>]

Hello.

I'm using bacula from CVS (2005-02-05) to backup 19 clients
over a 2 mbits leased line on disk. My setup:
- One Device for every client
- Full/Diff and Incr Pools for every Device
- directors daemon has "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5"
- storage daemon has "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10"
Especially when Full backups are scheduled the backup take
a very long time, but is work smooth.
At this time no "just in time" restore is possible,
because restore jobs will by queued until one backup 
job is ready (priority of restore jobs is 1).

It would be very nice to let the restore running if
the storage device is not in use (there is no job running
for this client in my setup).

I'm not sure what is the best way to do this.
1) always allow one restore/verify job and don't check
  "Maximum Concurrent Jobs"
2) a director resource "Maximum Concurrent Backup Jobs",
   so it would be possible to set in the director
   "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 9" and
   "Maximum Concurrent Backup Jobs = 5",
   to allow 4 parallel restore/verify jobs.

Second method will be of cause better for me ....

What do you think ?

best regards,

calle