Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-08 Thread Per Andreas Buer
Alan Brown wrote: > Note that the attribute spooling directory should be on a separate > filesystem to the data spooling - if the data spool fills up, Bacula will > flush it. If the attribute spool fills up the job aborts. > How big does the attribute spool have to be? Any guidelines? Per.

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > In theory, a 600 GB tape with a 200 GB spool file would be filled in > three chunks. As the sizes never add up that well, and the actual tape > capacity is never that exact, you will find that it takes three or four > despooling turns which doesn't sound t

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 1/8/2007 11:46 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > >>In theory, a 600 GB tape with a 200 GB spool file would be filled in >>three chunks. As the sizes never add up that well, and the actual tape >>capacity is never that exact, you will find that it takes th

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-05 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 1/5/2007 10:13 PM, Mike Seda wrote: > Hi All, > I plan to install bacula next week. I am just curious as to what > "Maximum Spool Size" should be set to if my goal is to backup a total of > 3 TB over gigE. I am still going for a D2T solution, but I just wanted > to see if you guys think

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Seda
Hi All, I plan to install bacula next week. I am just curious as to what "Maximum Spool Size" should be set to if my goal is to backup a total of 3 TB over gigE. I am still going for a D2T solution, but I just wanted to see if you guys think that leveraging 100 to 300 GB of unused disk for spoo

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-01 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 12/31/2006 10:44 AM, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Hi. > > The documentation says it does not make sense to spool data to disk when > doing backup to disk. I'm using migration and I believe it actually > makes sense to spool the data first. I plan to run between 10 and 20 > jobs in parallel

[Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2006-12-31 Thread Per Andreas Buer
Hi. The documentation says it does not make sense to spool data to disk when doing backup to disk. I'm using migration and I believe it actually makes sense to spool the data first. I plan to run between 10 and 20 jobs in parallell - so the migration jobs are running the data from disk to tape