The fact that you are doing that will cause me to revisit the issue.
I think i was over-writing my previous full backups on tape swaps and such.
I will dig and post config, but this is what I was looking for.
-nick
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net>wrote:
> On 02/05/14 14:15, Nick Allevato wrote:
> > We currently have a dataset of ~800 GB. Due to cost restrictions, I am
> > running an older single-drive LTO3 tape. I can usually get about 450 GB
> > of data on those tapes.
>
> > The issue is that the full backup does not seem to complete. Bacula
> > looks at the dataset and says "ok, no full backup, let's do one." then
> > the tape fills up. Insert new tape, and the backup seems to start over,
> > never completing the initial full.
>
> > 1. Will bacula span a full backup across multiple tapes?
> > 2. Is it possible to have bacula write a single job (full or
> > incremental) across multiple tapes given that the job size exceeds the
> > tape capacity/free space?
> > 3. If so, are there any specific job setting/flag considerations I
> > should look at?
>
> Nick,
> I'm currently backing up about 1.2TB per full-backup cycle onto LTO4
> tapes which I get around 780GB-820GB per tape onto. Bacula simply
> requests a new tape at the point that the first one fills up, without me
> having to do anything special to enable that behavior.
>
> Perhaps you could post your configuration (properly sanitized of
> course)...?
>
>
>
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