On Friday 02 March 2007 18:46, Richard White wrote: > We had an adventure Friday. We had errors in backup and > later, when re-starting the server, in MySQL. To make a long > story short, it turned out that the disk was full. I > eventually found the culprits. They were spool files from > past jobs. I suppose that those jobs failed for one reason > or another and the spool files remained. Deleting them fixed > my immediate problem but left me with two questions. > > 1) Is it possible for Bacula to write such an "orphan" spool > file to tape?
No. > > 2) Spooling differential jobs to disk makes perfect sense, > for reasons explained in the manual. On full backups, does > Bacula de-spool from disk at the same time that the FD is > spooling data to the disk? This seems to be what happens, as > I can see tape activity pretty much right away on full > backup jobs, but my boss wonders about this. If you are talking about a single FD and a single Job, the answer is currently no (there is a project in progress to change this). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
