> Hereby I apolologize, because I posted this e-mail to bacula-users 2 days > ago but did not receive any answer yet, probablt here it is a more > appropriate place to ask. > I did not answer when you originally posted because I am confused at what the problem is. > > Currently, in the evenings my backup system backups first to disk and > then in the mornings I scheduled a copy job to copy the jobs to tape (LTO2). > It worked fine so far, but now I have a new machine and have to do a > full backup with the size of ~330GB. (The other machines are <200GB) > > Bacula can copy the files of the big full backup over multiple tapes > successfully but afterwards, it tries again to copy the same job to the > tapedrive again (and again...) > Could this be because the maximum tape space is (uncompressed) 200GB > (and in reality with compression just about 250GB) and the Copy-Job > needs to backup >300GB? >
Yes a 200GB LTO2 tape does not necessarily fit the 400GB that the manufacturers specify. Sometimes you get 210GB, sometimes you get 1TB. It all depends on your data. I usually get about 300GB on a LTO2 tape unless I am backing up lots of text files. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
