On Friday 24 June 2005 00:57, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2005 00:32, Chris Lee wrote:
> > I'm interested in this also. Perhaps a Minimum Spool Size directive so
> > that the spool reaches a critical size to avoid shoe shining tapes, and
> > once that size is reached the storage daemon starts de-spooling from the
> > beginning of the spool file to the tape while still writing data from the
> > file daemon to the end of the spool file.
>
> I was thinking more along the line of splitting the the spool file so that,
> once it reaches a certain size ... a new spool file is created that is
> basically a continuation of the previous spool file ... like what amanda
> does.
Yes, this is possible, but if you are running multiple simultaneous jobs, the
other jobs will continue to spool. Considering that Bacula still lacks some
important advanced features, this it not high enough in priority to get my
attention. If someone is interested enough to write a patch, that would be
nice.
>
> Thus, it would avoid the overrun that Kern was thinking of.
Agreed.
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Kern
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