On 15 Sep 2006 at 22:22, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 9/15/2006 9:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I am running bacula-dir version 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) on FreeBSD > > 6.1-RELEASE. I am fairly new to Bacula, and have just configured two Unix > > machines and one Windows XP machine with bacula-fd. Backups have been > > running consistently for several weeks now without issue to a USB2.0 > > attached 400GB external drive. I am truly amazed to see what is now a > > 200GB single file on this disk, but all seems well. > > You quote a good reason to limit the volume file size yourself :-)
Large volumes on *disk* slow down the restore if you're trying to get one file back. GREATLY. Try it. I suggest smaller volumes. e.g. 2GB. Consider you need a 30MB from somewhere in that 200GB file. Assume it's 1/4 of the way through the volume. You must read 50GB before you get to that file. Of course, it could be at 170GB through the file... Either way, you don't want to wait all that time. Tape drives often have skip ahead functionality so this problem is not always applicable to tape. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
