Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Writing too much data to tape?

2009-11-23 17:05:37
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Writing too much data to tape?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Jason Selwitz <jselwitz AT vvisions DOT com>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:02:52 -0500
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Jason Selwitz <jselwitz AT vvisions DOT com> 
wrote:
>   Hi there I'm wondering if anyone else has ran into this problem, I'm
> running bacula  2.4.2 on a Gentoo system with a Spectra logic T50
> autochanger and one LTO-4 Drive, all the tests go fine with btape and
> backups have been going fine for over a year and now all of a sudden I'm
> getting tapes every so often that are having 9 ,10, 11 TB or so reported
> to have been written to them when usually I should be seeing 800GB to
> maybe 1.5TB, no major config changes except maybe adding a couple more
> clients. any hints would be much appreciated. Thanks
>

Are you backing up enormous log files so compression for these files
can be 50:1 instead of the manufacturer expected 2:1 or the more
realistic 1.5:1?

John

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