> Ah ok, dedicating a few GB for this are no problem but can i actually expect
> an improved performance? As far as i know spooling makes only sense when
> doing an incremental backup so that the tape wouldn't have to stop and start
> all the time.
>
>
Attribute spooling will help considerably when you are backing up a
lot of files especially because you have a very old version of bacula
that does not have the batch processing patch. Also since you have a
slow network (less than 1/2 the bandwidth of the tape drive) data
spooling will help the guaranteed tape stop / starts but it probably
will increase the time of the backup because spooling does not read
and write concurrently. I would turn on attribute spooling however.

John

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