On 2/26/2010 11:32 AM, Joseph Dickson wrote: > > Greetings.. > > I’m using completely disk based backup, with a custom autochanger > script. When I initially set this up, I set the maximum job > concurrency on each of my disk devices to 1, so that Bacula would be > forced to only write one job to any given volume at any given time. > > I’m just wondering, now that I’ve done that, is there any REAL > advantage for me in not allowing Bacula to interleave on a disk based > volume? Does it make the on-volume format a lot simpler? >
Interleaving makes a restore using those volumes slower because it has to read a lot of blocks of data that aren't related to the client being restored. > Joe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
