2012/1/5 Rushdhi Mohamed <zmrushdhi AT gmail DOT com>:
> hi.. all
>
> Every day, I have more than 375GB to backup.
>
> for the movement i do the backups by breaking then into different volumes. (
> one volume might have maximum of 150GB of data)
>
> below is "list volumes" out put that you can see..
>
> Now what i am going to do is write all the backups for a day into one single
> volume so there is going to be 7 volumes and one single volume going to have
> up to 400GB of data.
>
> Is Bacula volumes capable to handle that much of data. or is it good to have
> small volumes like 150GB
>
> Is it ok to have up to 400GB in a bacula volume... on a file storage
> device..

Yes. I have some tapes (LTO2) at work with over 1 TB of data on them
however most of my 100+ tapes average around 300 GB of data since I
get about 1.5:1 compression on average depending on the job and client
since compression (hw in this case) varies depending on the fileset.

John

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