hi All

On Thursday 21 April 2016 17:00:14 Clark, Patti wrote:

> If you are using spooling (recommended) your spool size parameters are used
> to control the size of your job spool and the total spool space available. 
> The example below shows 50GB of job spool size and a total of 1TB of spool
> space.  You will need to try sizes that are appropriate for your
> environment and see what performs best for you.  The job spool size when
> reached will write to tape at that point.  It will continue with spooling
> and writing to tape media until the end of data has been reached.  Also for
> something like a NAS, it’s best to break the backups into more manageable
> chunks.  Don’t try to backup the entire NAS in one job.  And yes, use the
> heartbeatinterval feature.
 
> 
>   Maximum Spool Size = 1000GB;
> 
>   Maximum Job Spool Size = 50GB;

Okay your explanation is clearer to me than what is in the manual. I was going 
to use Maximum File Size as a way to "chunk" it, even though I was dubious 
about it. 

Will implement your suggestions, thanks.
 
> You don’t mention which version of Bacula that you are using.  If it is
> 7.4.x is has a resume command that will restart failed jobs roughly from

Versions vary, Director and FD on this machine (Gentoo) are the same, 7.05 but 
the NAS boxes are running FreeNas and I had to compile a version for them in 
VirtualBox, don't think the FreeBSD releases are at that level yet. Also was 
trying to back up a site on the net running CentOS 6, which had it's own 
issues. Eventually gave up, could not get the remote FD and local SD to talk 
to each other, I think the problem is somewhere between my firewall (IPFire) 
and the SD (CentOS 7 on HP server). So now I rsync remote to here and backup 
from here. Initial rsync took 20 hours so it's probably better that way.

It would be nice if the various OSs could get their act together and get the 
versions in sync :-)

Thanks, Ian
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