Re: [Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I also used to think that the upper number in the tape raiting was a hard limit, it is not. You just happen to have data in your file system that is HIGHLY compressable, congrats. On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Josh Nielsen wrote: Hello, I am relatively new to tape backups in general and I have rec

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Encryption?

2011-01-05 Thread Edward M. Markowski
here at work we do not use bacula so I can't speak to the compatibility, but we use the following: Started with Netapp Datafort inline apiliances, we have around 30 of the deployed, they work mostly, but require more maintaince then I would like. Our second generation solution for inline encry

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to position to end of data on device

2010-11-11 Thread Edward M. Markowski
Is this happening with this one tape only, or all tapes you try in this particulat drive? If the problem is only with this tape, is the tape old and been used a lot? If so, then the tape has reached/passed the end of it's usefull life. If this tape drive is in a library, check the library fo

[Bacula-users] How to run 1 backup job to tape with duplicate to a 2nd tape

2010-05-27 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I have this customer that wants to backup a filesystem that currently is a bit over 4TB used and grows up to 300GB per week. The growth is new files, existing files do not change. Each backup run, full/diff/inc are to go to 2 sets of tapes, one to keep in a vault onsite, one to go offsite.

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent spooling and despooling

2010-02-16 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I thought about this reciently, after I moved my spool dir to a 1.5 GB ramdisk, I had been using 100GB of a mirrored pair of 500GB SATA drives my throughtput to tape went up be a little over 10Mps. A few thoughts, see inline.. On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 16.02.2010 11

Re: [Bacula-users] tape size & speed LTO-1 drive

2009-11-30 Thread Edward M. Markowski
Hi and welcome. I'm also new to using Bacula, but hopefully can offer some usefull info :-) Tape Capacity: As you have seen LTO-1 tapes have an uncompressed capacity of 100GB, due to bacula overhead, you should see no less then slightly under the 100GB on each cartrage. I have seen traf

Re: [Bacula-users] SOT: When to update ...

2009-10-25 Thread Edward M. Markowski
On 10/25/2009 09:34 PM, ReynierPM wrote: > Hi every: > I was watching Bacula since 1 year and I've very graceful with this tool > and the community behind the software. I have Bacula 3.0.2 working in a > production server. Now Bacula 3.0.3 is out with bugfixes. My question > here is: when to update

Re: [Bacula-users] New autochanger adds L3 after tape barcode

2009-10-20 Thread Edward M. Markowski
Check the autochanger user doc, many have a setting that will cause it to stop reporting the cartrage type field. On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Adam Cécile wrote: Hello, I juste replaced an autochanger and the new one adds L3 at the end of each tape label (ie: XY becames XYL3). What can I do