I have added this to the projects list. Best regards,
Kern On Monday 28 April 2008 11:43:36 Tobias Barth wrote: > Hi, > > after nearly 3 years of writing nothing here, I am back - with a feature > request :) > I recently upgraded from bacula 1.36 to 2.2.8 in order to use the job > spooling feature. The feature is working, but bacula always waits for > appendable media before it starts spooling. So, after the operator has > inserted the media, again 2 or more hours are spent for spooling before > the tape starts writing. I think it would be nice if the spooling would > immediately start when the job is submitted by the user or the > scheduler. And here comes the formal feature request: > > Item 1: Start spooling even when waiting on tape > Origin: Tobias Barth <tobias.ba...@web-arts.com> > Date: 25 April 2008 > Status: > > What: If a job can be spooled to disk before writing it to tape, it > should be spooled immediately. > Currently, bacula waits until the correct tape is inserted > into the drive. > > Why: It could save hours. When bacula waits on the operator who > must insert the correct tape (e.g. a new > tape or a tape from another media pool), bacula could already > prepare the spooled data in the > spooling directory and immediately start despooling when the > tape was inserted by the operator. > > 2nd step: Use 2 or more spooling directories. When one directory is > currently despooling, the next (on different > disk drives) could already be spooling the next data. > > Notes: I am using bacula 2.2.8, which has none of those features > implemented. > > > > Greetings, > > Tobias Barth > > ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
