Dan Langille wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>   
>>> | i thought attributes were spooled, then commited to the database, of
>>> course
>>> | i may be completely wrong :-\
>>>
>>> Actually, you may be right. I ran into a situation over the weekend
>>> where something that was locking the database caused attribute spooling
>>> to hang. Anyone have a definitive answer?
>>>
>>>       
>> Attributes are spooled to the database at the end of the job. If you
>> have thousands of files bacula may indicate that the job is finished
>> before this spooling is done but if you check the status of the
>> storage you will see that spooling is still happening. I am not sure
>> if you can remove media while this is happening as I have never
>> attempted that.
>>     
>
>   
Can I be a bit picky here. To my mind, 'spooling' means writing to some
intermediate storage. Attributes arent *spooled* to the database (i.e. 
the catalog),
they are *written* there.  If attribute spooling is turned on, the 
attributes are
spooled to an intermediate file, before being finally written to the 
catalog.
This process offers a possible performance enhancement.
If we refer to the final write into the catalog as 'spooling', then it 
implies
that if attribute spooling is turned off, the attributes are not written 
to the
catalog at all, which is not true. <End of pick.>

Cheers,
Terry

 

> Yes, attributes are send to the database.  At some time.
>
> They are sent to the database at the end of the job if "Spool Atributes" 
> = yes.  Otherwise, they are sent to the database throughout the job (as 
> each file is backed up, the attributes are written to the database.
>
>   


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