-----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