Hi All, I plan to install bacula next week. I am just curious as to what "Maximum Spool Size" should be set to if my goal is to backup a total of 3 TB over gigE. I am still going for a D2T solution, but I just wanted to see if you guys think that leveraging 100 to 300 GB of unused disk for spooling would help avoid shoe-shine. Thx in advance, Mike
Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Hi. > > The documentation says it does not make sense to spool data to disk when > doing backup to disk. I'm using migration and I believe it actually > makes sense to spool the data first. I plan to run between 10 and 20 > jobs in parallell - so the migration jobs are running the data from disk > to tape the data will probably be read between 10 and 20 times. If the > data are spooled first I believe the migration should run a lot quicker > - because the data won't be intermingled. Backup might actually be a bit > slower - but I'm planning of using a couple of rather fast disked - > striped - in order to mitigate this. > > Does this makes sense? I haven't tried this yet as I am only backing up > one client at the moment. > > Happy new year, people. Thank you for making this excellent piece of > software. > > Per. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
