> Is there any built-in/simple way to determine how far along a job is?
> Some kind of progress meter against a job size estimate?
>
There is no progress in bacula. You could run estimate before the job
if you want. This will generally take a few minutes to possibly a few
hours depending on how many files you have to backup.

>
> Even knowing how much has been put to tape at a given point would be
> nice.  We have jobs that take more than 24 hours to run.  :S
>
With status storage you can find out how many bytes are on the tape.

> The best I can see is looking at the JobMedia table and then multiplying
> the number of entries for a job by the file size for our tape media.
> Not even sure if that's accurate.
>
> Anything simpler?
>
No clue what you are getting at here. Since tapes are compressed and
the compression rate varies depending on the data you are backing up
there is no real way of figuring out how how much capacity is left on
the tape since every tape will have different capacity. At work I have
some 200GB lto2 tapes that are full at 210GB while other LTO2 tapes
have 1.2TB on them.

John

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