On 02/11/10 14:04, Richard Scobie wrote:
> I am just testing bacula prior to deployment and restored 7 files from 
> one directory from a backup of 3TB.
> 
> This backup is stored on 3 LTO4 volumes and in order to restore these 7 
> files, it read from the first and third LTO4 volumes, when I would have 
> expected them to all be adjacent to one another.
> 
> Is this a deliberate policy to spread data across tapes or a reflection 
> of the FS layout of the data being backed up?

If that's a backup of a single host, that sounds ...  bizarre.  The only
explanation I can think of is that there's a directory tree sitting in
somewhere between those seven files in the directory, that contains a
vast quantity of data.  If you look at your filesystem, could this be
the case?


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