> I guess I'll leave it at 25GB then.
>
There is no harm for a single backup to span 2 or more volumes.

>
> Also, I was watching my nightly full backup and I got the following:
>
> User defined maximum volume capacity 26,843,545,600 exceeded on device
> "FileStorage" (/home/bacula/backups
> End of medium on Volume "Volumes0001" Bytes=26,843,504,883
> Blocks=416,105 at 08-Dec-2008 19:49.
>
> Does bacula move the files if they exceed to a next volume or not? It
> is not that clear as it first says it exceeded the max and then it
> says it closed before the max? Which one is it?
>
If a file was not finished and the volume is full bacula will just
continue with the file on the next volume. So it will not waste space.

> I see the file is actually bigger then what I specified is that
> because the file system? ext3? or :
> 27165479219 2008-12-08 19:49 Volumes0001
> (25.29GB)?
>

I am not sure of the exact reason for that.

John

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