> Has your tape drive drive passed all the btape tests?

Yes, it did.  I ran the tests again, just to make sure, and it is all ok.  

FWIW, this is an Arcvault48 Autochanger library with 2 HP Ultrium LTO4 drives.

John May
Fugro Horizons, Inc.
john.may AT fugrohorizons DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan AT langille DOT org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:17 PM
To: May, John
Cc: 'bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net'
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 restore files from tape very slow

On 7/15/2010 3:05 PM, May, John wrote:
>> Are you restoring a few files from a backup?  An entire backup?
>
> I am restoring the entire backup, the full two tapes worth of data.

If you were selecting a few files, here and there, I would look at your 
skip forward feature on your tape drive and ensure it was correctly 
configured in bacula-dir.conf.  That does not apply here.

>> What command did you issue?
>
> # bextract -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -V 000011L4\|000021L4 /dev/nst0 
> /restores

Well.... again, the whole backup, so, no clues there.

Has your tape drive drive passed all the btape tests?

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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