-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Antoine Durr wrote:
> On May 6, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>> Antoine Durr wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My question is, what constitutes a VolFile?
> 
>> It's in there somewhere [in the manual], but I recall it being
>> non-obvious. A VolFile appears to be a mark that it writes every 1 GB
>> for one reason or another. I've never had any use for knowing that  
>> number.
> 
> I was wondering if it was something like that.  However, I have  
> another volume that has 492,517,380,096 VolBytes but has 536  
> VolFiles.  And yet another volume in that particular pool has  
> 151,451,403,264 VolBytes and nicely 152 VolFiles.  Hmmm....

Bacula writes EOF (end of file) markers onto tapes to make restoring
faster (it uses these markers to skip/fast forward over the files it
doesn't need when restoring). By default, one such marker is written:

- - at every 1GB of a job.
- - at every end of a job (ie if you run 10 jobs that are all smaller than
1GB, you will have 10 'files' on your tape).

Greetings,
      Michel
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFGPuEL2Vs+MkscAyURAopPAJ4qsmlLYyMgRdwRzJNWP23vdIClvACggaAZ
Vb8Dnbx0xQ4gBZzorNWFzSc=
=z0Ks
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

Reply via email to