Thanks Michael,
You answered the usage question. With the exception of positioning at
times when the tape is faster than the data stream, the tape is only
making one pass over the heads per day.
I wouldn't consider the level of use you're describing as significant,
at least not in my experienc
I appreciate your feedback. The daily tapes are written to 12 times each
day (full and incrementals on the same tape), and each daily tape is
used once each week. There are also weekly tapes that are written to
once and used once/month, and a monthly pool that is written to each
month, with the
[I just re-read this and it sounds gruff. I'm just in a hurry, I do
sympathize with you. Read this with a helpful tone, which is how it's
intended. Thx]
You say how many jobs run each day, but not how many tapes are written.
In this case, the number of tapes is more relevant than the number of
First of all, let me just say that Bacula is wonderful. I migrated to it
after a very unreliable (and expensive) commercial product
implementation. Bacula works flawlessly, and is very simple to configure
and operate. Great product! Keep up the good work.
Now for my question:
Does anyone have
