On Wednesday 05 July 2006 20:54, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2006 at 20:35, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:57, Åge Røbekk wrote:
> > > When forward spacing to a file far into the tape, like file# 150, it
> > > can take up to 30 minutes for it to complete, and it feels a bit too
> > > slow. Are there any methods to speed this up? FreeBSD 6.1 using a Dell
> > > PV132T with an IBM Ultrium-2 LTO2 drive.
> >
> > Complain to the FreeBSD tape driver programmers to write one that
> > corresponds to modern specs such as Solaris and Linux so that Fast
> > Forward Space file will work. Otherwise, Bacula has to do it the slow
> > way.
> >
> > The other solution that you won't like is to switch OSes.
>
> Kern! We can't have people doing that! ;)
Well, I wasn't really serious about switching OSes.
Maybe I am starting to lose it (quite likely), but it seemed to me that Fast
Forward Space File doesn't work on FreeBSD.
>
> The OP did not supply configuration details. I'm guessing that this
> option is not specified in bacula-sd.conf:
>
> Fast Forward Space File = yes
>
> FYI, here is mine:
>
> Device {
> Name = DLT
> Description = QUANTUM DLT7000 1624
> Media Type = DLT
> Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
>
> Hardware End of Medium = no
> Fast Forward Space File = yes
> BSF at EOM = yes
> Backward Space Record = yes
>
> Spool Directory = /home/bacula/spooling
> Maximum Spool Size = 23518993778
> Maximum Job Spool Size = 23518993778 # 20GB
>
> # when I unmount, take the tape offline
> #
> Offline on Unmount = yes
> }
>
> This is 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD
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