On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, John Drescher wrote:
>> During the backup one copy job already run and use the first tape drive. >> In the output I can see that 4 Jobs runs concurrently (one was the copy >> job). A little bit later I noticed that 2 jobs despooling data at the same >> time. Will this means the jobs are mixed on the tape volume? >> >> According to [1] this should not happen: "...While the spooled data is being written to the tape, the despooling process has exclusive use of the tape. This means that you can spool multiple simultaneous jobs to disk, then have them very efficiently despooled one at a time without having the data blocks from several jobs intermingled, thus substantially improving the time needed to restore files. While despooling, all jobs spooling continue running...." > Yes that means the jobs will be interleaved on the same volume. Bacula > understands that and will have no problem restoring. Ok, this will end in slow restore times. It's possible to prevent this behaviour? Best Regards, - Jummo [1] http://www.bacula.org/de/dev-manual/Data_Spooling.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
