Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2022-01-26 20:13, dmitri maziuk wrote: On 2022-01-26 12:57 PM, Josip Deanovic wrote: The number of files per directory is far bigger and is unlikely to get reached, especially not for this use case. The limit is one thing, the scaling is another. I agree: 40TB of 10GB files is not enough t

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread dmitri maziuk
On 2022-01-26 12:57 PM, Josip Deanovic wrote: The number of files per directory is far bigger and is unlikely to get reached, especially not for this use case. The limit is one thing, the scaling is another. I agree: 40TB of 10GB files is not enough to see the slow-down on any modern system,

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread Thomas Lohman
I'm having a RAID5 array of about 40TB in size. A separate RAID controller card handles the disks. I'm planning to use the normal ext4 file system. It's standard and well known, most probably not the fastest though. That will not have any great impact, as there is a 4TB NVMe SSD drive, which

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2022-01-26 18:42, dmitri maziuk wrote: If you use actual disks as "magazines" with vchanger, you need to pre-label the volumes. If you use just one big filesystem, you can let bacula do it for you (last I looked that functionality didn't work w/ autochangers). If you use disk "magazines" you

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread dmitri maziuk
On 2022-01-26 11:59 AM, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: ... I'm having a RAID5 array of about 40TB in size. A separate RAID controller card handles the disks. I'm planning to use the normal ext4 file system. It's standard and well known, most probably not the fastest though. That will

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2022-01-26 18:06, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: I'm used to fixed volume sizes from the tape drives, I feel comfortable with it, and I do not need to relearn a lot to configure the Bacula system. The only thing I haven't found out is how to preallocate the number of volumes needed. Ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread Peter Milesson via Bacula-users
On 26.01.2022 18:42, dmitri maziuk wrote: On 2022-01-26 11:06 AM, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: ... Your way of explaining the reasoning of why to use smaller file volumes, is very appreciated. ... The only thing I haven't found out is how to preallocate the number of volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread dmitri maziuk
On 2022-01-26 11:06 AM, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: ... Your way of explaining the reasoning of why to use smaller file volumes, is very appreciated. ... The only thing I haven't found out is how to preallocate the number of volumes needed. Maybe there is no need, if the volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-26 Thread Peter Milesson via Bacula-users
On 26.01.2022 0:02, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 23.01.2022 11:37, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, pt., 21 sty 2022 o 14:22 Peter Milesson via Bacula-users napisał(a):     If somebody has got experience with disk based, multi volume Bacula     backup, I would be grateful about some inform

[Bacula-users] upgrade from 9.4.2 to 11.0.5

2022-01-26 Thread Lionel PLASSE
Hello, Simple question, On Debian 11, for an upgrade from v9.4.2 mysql + baculum to v11, is there any difficulties to do it from sources. I always waited to the Debian repository version and they still are on 9.4.2... Should I upgrade to 9.6 before? has anybody already do it right? I think