On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 
> > 2. It is apparently not possible to backup all 100 hosts straight to
> >    tape, so you write them to disk first.  Why is that?  It sounds like
> >    you're manually doing "Spooling", which Bacula has transparent support
> >    for.  You could, in Bacula, set up a single job which copied the backup
> >    data to disk first and then as that continues, spool them out to tape.
> 
> Do you have an example, how the spooling like you described can be
> implemented?

We're only starting to use tapes ourselves now, so this is somewhat
theoretical still for me.  However, this is where the documentation is and
I'm pretty sure it's used by a good number of people who use tapes and the
feature has been in Bacula for a long time:

http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Data_Spooling.html

Gavin


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