Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Scobie
Joseph Spenner wrote: > Ok, I just used bconsole and recovered a directory in little time at all. > So, bat is the problem. I can use bconsole instead. I might try to go back > to using 1TB files and see how it performs as well. > Thanks for the tip! I can confirm this and will post more ful

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher wrote: > I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before > I get a list of what is possible to select.  This is what > appears to take hours.  Or is this possible faster in > bconsole? > > > > I do not really use bat, nor have I restored anything f

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread John Drescher
> Right, but in order to do this, I first must let bat (I think?) load the > WHOLE index before I get a list of what is possible to select.  This is what > appears to take hours.  Or is this possible faster in bconsole? > I do not really use bat, nor have I restored anything from any version of

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher wrote: > > > 3) If I use bconsole I can specify a single file to > recover and it is VERY fast.  But there doesn't seem to be > a way to specify an entire directory.  Or am I not looking > in the right place? > > > > You run restore and mark the folder you wan

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > I'm currently set up with a File based backup system (no tapes).  Initially I > wanted to make 1TB files, but learned (and read) that recovery of a backup is > very slow with large files.  So, I reconfigured it to create 1GB files. Also

[Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm currently set up with a File based backup system (no tapes). Initially I wanted to make 1TB files, but learned (and read) that recovery of a backup is very slow with large files. So, I reconfigured it to create 1GB files. This will create significantly more files (1000x) but this won't be