Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] spooling + tape + concurrent backups

2008-09-17 05:45:43
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] spooling + tape + concurrent backups
From: Adrian Moisey <adrian AT careerjunction.co DOT za>
To: Andrea Conti <ac AT alyf DOT net>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:45:20 +0200
Hi

>> , or for that matter a directive to
>> say "While you're putting job A to tape, you might as well start
>> spooling job B"
> 
> On the other hand, this is *exactly* what you get when running multiple
> concurrent jobs that write to the same tape device _with data spooling
> enabled_.

If I understand you correctly, I must enable concurrent jobs to fix my 
problem?

> So what you get with interleaved jobs is just longer restore times (you
> have to read and discard lots of unrelated data blocks) and a messier
> volume format.

But I'll end up with a messier volume format which will make restore 
times longer?

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