Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 02.01.2008 16:53,, Weber, Philip wrote:: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Bacula 2.2.4. Solaris 9 Director & Storage Daemons. Mix of Solaris and >> Windows clients. >> >> I am gradually moving some backups onto Bacula (from another backup >> system) & have noticed that Spooling of backups does not appear to be >> working as I expected. I have a few 100 Gb set up for spooling, as I >> have some large clients. However it seems that if only 1 large slow >> client is running, it will load the tape drive at the start of the >> backup to disk, and keep it open and unused until it starts spooling to >> tape at the end of the backup to disk or once the spool area has reached >> the threshold. I had assumed (!) Bacula would mount the tape when it >> started reading from disk onto tape. As I have separated out my Solaris >> and Windows backups into separate tape volumes, this leads to lots of >> jobs for the other OS, backing up. > > The behaviour you observe is correct - Bacula only starts a job after > it can reserve the storage media it needs, and it doesn't release the > tape drive until that job is finished. > >> A few questions to anyone who is using Spooling and Migration : >> >> 1. Would I be better off using migration instead of spooling? e.g. back >> up everything to disk overnight and then later migrate to tape. I am >> probably OK for disk space, and my main aims are to get backups through >> as quickly as possible and prevent my LTO2 drives from shoe-shining. > > Migration would be the best approach then, yes.
One thing that came to mind: smaller jobs Just in case it helps. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
