On 2017-08-22 03:10, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Dimitri,
I have heard the same complaint from you a number of times: "Bacula
sucks at disk as tapes". It is my view that your statement is simply
not true.
I think at the very basic level, a disk is a device that doesn't quack
like a tape and doesn't walk like a tape. What this means is if your
software is built on the tape paradigm, it can call a disk "a tape", and
it will suck because it actually is not a tape. It does not matter to me
what API the code calls to do addressing: the point is that a disk has
multiple files on it while a tape has bytes until EOT.
Don't get me wrong, this is not specific to bacula: every tape backup
software has the same conceptual limitation and has to employ some
workarounds for backups to disk. But this is the bacula list, we're not
talking about every software here.
Bacula, in fact, is much better than some, if you can fit all your
backups on a single filesystem: bacula's built-in disk backup setup is a
breeze.
However if you want to backup to removable disks and put them on the
shelf when full, that's where things get less than perfect fast.
Dima
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