Re: [Bacula-users] create large disk volumes for backup

On 08/05/12 05:57, d tbsky wrote:
> hi:
>    I am new to bacula and I plan to use disk file to backup. the full
> backup size is about 2TB。
> 
> I saw many warnings in the document about using large disk volumes to
> backup, because
> " with a single Volume, is that until version 2.0.0, Bacula did not seek
> within a
> disk Volume, so restoring a single ﬁle can take more time than one would
> expect."
> 
> but I also find there is a "random access = yes" parameter for disk
> volume and it seems can do seek.
> 
> so I am confused if  it is ok now to use large disk volumes(ex: 2TB or
> bigger) with bacula 5.2.10 ?


First of all note that 5.2.10 is a considerably more recent version than
2.0.0, and does nut therefore fall under "until 2.0.0".  :)  This should
answer your question...


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