Hi Martin

Thank you very much for your help.
Now a restore with about 60 GB is done in less than 2h.

Here's my bacula-sd.conf

...
Device {
  Name = Bandlaufwerk1
  Description = LTO2
  Media Type = LTO2
  Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
  AutomaticMount = no
  AlwaysOpen = no
  Offline On Unmount = yes
  Hardware End of Medium = no
  BSF at EOM = no
  Backward Space Record = yes
  Backward Space File = yes
  Fast Forward Space File = Yes
  TWO EOF = no
}
...

Pascal

>>>>>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:52:26 +0200 (CEST), ml  said:
>>
>> I'm using bacula since 1 year to backup 3 freebsd machines daily. I
works great expect of the any restore is taking a very long time. It
takes about 2 or 3 hours to restore a single file. We're using a HP
Ultrium LTO-2 SCSI drive.
>>
>> device section in bacula-sd.conf:
>>
>> Device {
>>   Name = Bandlaufwerk1
>>   Description = LTO2
>>   Media Type = LTO2
>>   Archive Device = /dev/sa0
>>   AutomaticMount = no
>>   AlwaysOpen = no
>>   Offline On Unmount = yes
>>   Hardware End of Medium = no
>>   BSF at EOM = yes
>>   Backward Space Record = no
>>   Fast Forward Space File = no
>>   TWO EOF = yes
>> }
>>
>> bacula Version: 2.4.2 (26 July 2008)
>> freebsd 6.2-RELEASE
>>
>> 1. Is there a way to get the restore faster?
>
> Have you tried this device with Fast Forward Space File = yes?  I have
an HP
> Ultrium LTO-1 drive that works with the following options on FreeBSD:
>
>   Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
>   AutomaticMount = yes
>   AlwaysOpen = yes
>   Offline On Unmount = no
>   Hardware End of Medium = no
>   BSF at EOM = no
>   Backward Space Record = yes
>   Backward Space File = yes
>   Fast Forward Space File = yes
>   TWO EOF = no
>
> Two notes about this:
>
> 1) It uses /dev/nsa0.  Your use of /dev/sa0 is wrong and I think it
could even
>    cause loss of data if you have more than one job on a tape.
>
> 2) If you change from TWO EOF = yes to TWO EOF = no then your existing
tapes
>    probably need to be purged before the you write to them again.
>
>
>> 2. The second question I got is about restoring files from a tape with
a lost catalog. Is there a way to restore files from a tape where the
backup
>> catalog is lost? Something like inventory as known from other backup
utilities.
>
> You can use bextract to read files directly off the tape and bls to list
the
> contents of a tape.
>
> __Martin
>





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