Re: [Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:58:31 -0500, Ryan Novosielski said: > > Fair enough. I'm assuming then though that I should replace them more > often than Bacula might automatically suggest in that case, eh? I didn't know that Bacula gave any suggestions, but check with the tape manufacturer's specs

Re: [Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/2011 11:28 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > On Fri, January 28, 2011 10:58 am, Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/28/2011 10:50 AM, Alan Brown wrote: >>> Martin Simmons wrote: >>> > Any hints?

Re: [Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-28 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, January 28, 2011 10:58 am, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/28/2011 10:50 AM, Alan Brown wrote: >> Martin Simmons wrote: >> Any hints? >>> >>> My advice is to forget about making overcomplicated -- a branded HP >>> DDS4 tape >>> costs

Re: [Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/2011 10:50 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > Martin Simmons wrote: > >>> Any hints? >> >> My advice is to forget about making overcomplicated -- a branded HP DDS4 tape >> costs less that $10. > > Same advice here even if using more expensive media. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-28 Thread Alan Brown
Martin Simmons wrote: >> Any hints? > > My advice is to forget about making overcomplicated -- a branded HP DDS4 tape > costs less that $10. Same advice here even if using more expensive media. It's not worth the time wasted. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:02:55 -0500, Ryan Novosielski said: > > Looking for a bit of advice here... hoping someone may have some pointers. > > The back story is that I have three incremental tapes. Each one is written > to for one business week. The total of the jobs per day is roughly > 300

[Bacula-users] Hint about small backup jobs with larger tapes

2011-01-27 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Looking for a bit of advice here... hoping someone may have some pointers. The back story is that I have three incremental tapes. Each one is written to for one business week. The total of the jobs per day is roughly 300MB. So, for the 5 days, about 1.5GB. I'm concerned about premature tape wear