On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, m...@free-minds.net wrote: > 1) do we really need to spool? We are not writing to real tapes, we have a > filesystem as backend (ext3 over glusterfs).
I am one of those that believes spooling to be useful even when writing backups to disk; it is obviously not in question that it's good when writing to tape. I see the advantages as having the backup volumes less fragmented than when writing directly without a spool, especially when running many concurrent job, and this increases restoration performance. In some scenarios, the spool may be faster anyway; for example, at home I spool jobs to a collection of SCSI drives with the pools situated on a set of ATA and USB drives (and btw, USB drives are sooooooo slow). Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
