From: <lst...@kw...> - 2013-01-17 10:34:41
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Zitat von Tilman Schmidt <t.s...@ph...>: > One of my Bacula servers backs up 18 clients. Many of these > have a lengthy ClientRunBeforeJob. (SVN hot backups, database > dumps, Windows system state backups - you get the picture.) > As a consequence, more than half of the elapsed time of my > nightly backup runs is actually spent waiting for one of the > clients to complete its Before job while everything else sits > idle. > > How are others handling this situation? Any smart ideas how > to get the before jobs to run in parallel, preferably keeping > the actual writing to tape sequential? Hello we use the spooling feature and run all *jobs* concurrently. With this you get adjustable sized "blocks" written to tape sequential to maximize throughput and concurrent spooling for all other jobs. Works trouble free but you need a really fast spool device for anything faster than LTO-3. Regards Andreas |