On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Thomas Franz wrote: > In the case of a backup run it takes a long time ( up to hours ) > until the storage daemon is finding the end-of-data position . ( Of > course only if the tape is nearly full). We are using bacula 1.36.3 > on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine. The backup hardware is an EXABYTE > Changer with an IBM LTO-3 drive.
It doesn't seem right that you should be seeing those types of positioning delays. I'm also using an LTO-3 drive, and have never seen the drive spend more than a few minutes positioning the tape. I suspect that the problem is with the use of the "Fast Forward Space File = no" directive. With the type of delays that you're reporting, I can easily believe that the drive is positioning to the end of data by reading all the data written up to that point. What happens if you use "fast forward space file = yes"? > It seems to work well after testing with btape and using the following > parameters: > ... > Hardware End of Medium = no > BSF at EOM = yes > Backward Space Record = no > Fast Forward Space File = no > TWO EOF = yes > .... > > Thanks. > > Thomas > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
