Hello, On 11/22/2006 11:11 PM, Andras Horvai wrote: > Hi, > > Well thanks for your answer. I will change my volumes size useing the > Max Volume Bytes setting. What settings do you reccomend if you used > this feature?
I'd recommend something like 2 to 8 GB, but this is not based on any testing at all. I'm having clients with disk-based setups and that size range worked ok, but it also depends on your jobs. If you expect to restore mainly full jobs, setting your volumes up so that they contain only one job is one possibility, but usually I prefer to have a large number of smaller volumes. Also, using volumes sizes of about 4.5 GB is nice when you want to export volumes to DVD. > If I issue the list volumes command in console I got > this: By the way: Keep in mind that changing the configuration only affects newly created volumes, not existing ones. The 'update' command is needed to modify existing volume entries in the catalog. Existing volumes will only be truncated when they are recycled. > +---------+---------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | > VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten > | > +---------+---------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+ > | 3 | ServersDiff01 | Used | 51,590,350,000 | 12 | > 432,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ServersFile | 2006-11-17 00:24:09 | > | 4 | ServersDiff02 | Append | 33,334,244,961 | 7 | > 432,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ServersFile | 2006-11-22 23:01:41 | > +---------+---------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+ > > What does VolFiles mean? I didn't find it in the documentation. VolFiles is the number of logical files in a volume. This is tape terminology - with tapes, you (usually) position to a certain file and read sequentially from then on. File marks take up tape space, so you've got to find a good balance obetween smaller file sizes and a larger number of files for fast positioning, and larger files with more usable tape capacity. You don't have to worry about this with disk based volumes - these have other peculiarities. As you found out. Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
