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Michael Short wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I realize that Bacula was originally developed for tape based backup
> systems, but disk space is becoming more inexpensive everyday. It is
> cheaper and more reliable to maintain a system which uses disk based
> mediums to store backup data. The problem is that disk based restores
> are unnecessarily slow, due to the linear nature of the backup
> volumes.
>
> I am addressing this problem because at some point it would be
> necessary to access old backup archives should anyone implement an
> rsync or xdelta type enhancement for Bacula. Perhaps instead of
> storing individual file locations in the catalog, an index of the
> backup could be stored at the beginning or end of a volume, so that
> unnecessary "forward spacing" would no longer be needed for disk based
> volumes. This extra would also make the process of recovering catalog
> information from volumes much less painful.
Don't disk-based volumes use fseek as of quite awhile ago? Or is this
not what you're talking about?
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