Hi,
On 5/19/2006 3:55 PM, John Goerzen wrote:
Hello all,
In the Bacula manual, one suggestion for daily tape rotation is to use a
different pool for each day. That sounds excessively complex to me. We
want to do daily rotations to offsite storage, though.
I thought of a couple of options.
O
On 2006-05-21, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am concerned about the unpredictability of the tape handling here,
>> alas.
>
> I can't say I experience unpredictable tape handling here, so it would
> be good do see more detailed information from you: If possible, use a
> pool with a
No, I didn't, at least not in an explicit manner. When
I configured the library, I don't recall having
enabled software compression - and I suppose BEB would
"know" that hardware compression was the way to go,
because the library was in its certified device list
and the program knew all about it. R
Hi,
On 5/20/2006 3:43 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
...
So, one solution would be using of software compression? I guess Bacula
allows it?
Yes, but keep in mind it's done on the client. Your customers or
co-workers will hate you if you run your backup jobs with a high
compression level during wor
Hi,
On 5/21/2006 3:52 PM, Georger Araujo wrote:
I guess this means I'll have to closely watch how many
backups it takes to fill a tape - the worst case being
the nominal capacity of the tape, i.e. 200 GB
uncompressed. I deployed Bacula web-gui yesterday,
it'll make this task easier.
Try bacula
Hello,
On 5/21/2006 3:48 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
Anyway, in typical scenarios, the only reliable way way of guessing tape
capacity (or remaining capacity) is estimating based on individual data,
i.e. using existing tapes with similar data on them as
> I'm still puzzled, though, how BrightStor Enterprise
> Backup 10.5 managed not only to estimate me how much
> space was still available - it also told me the
> compression ratio of the backup! I used to get 1.5:1
>
Did you use software compression in the backup software, instead of hardware
compr
I guess this means I'll have to closely watch how many
backups it takes to fill a tape - the worst case being
the nominal capacity of the tape, i.e. 200 GB
uncompressed. I deployed Bacula web-gui yesterday,
it'll make this task easier.
I'm still puzzled, though, how BrightStor Enterprise
Backup 10.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> Anyway, in typical scenarios, the only reliable way way of guessing tape
> capacity (or remaining capacity) is estimating based on individual data,
> i.e. using existing tapes with similar data on them as reference.
I wouldn't call this a "reliable"
Hi,
On 5/20/2006 9:45 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
It is possible to query this information from SCSI tape drives using the LOG
SENSE command, page 0x31.
Hmm. According to the documents I read, LOG SENSE itself is optional,
and page 0x31 is vendor specific (according to SPC-3 draft, and SSC-3
dr
Hello,
On 5/20/2006 11:32 PM, John Goerzen wrote:
On 2006-05-19, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I did an update volume and set yesterday's volume to used... then it
said it was waiting for mount. I ran mount for the second time
(remember I had already done that earlier), and then the
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