Chris Howells wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to figure out whether bacula supports multiplexing multiple > simultaneous backup jobs to the same tape - having googled, the results > are inconclusive :) > Yes, but you end up with interleaved jobs on tape and restore becomes VERY slow due to the drive having to constantly shoeshine while skipping over the other interleaved jobs.
It is far better to build a very fast raid0 array to spool data onto and then dump that spool to tape. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users