In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > How sure are you that it continuously writes to tape. On my setup I put > a max spooling size of 10 Gigs, and everytime it reaches the 10 gigs, > the spooling seems to stop. Bacula seems to empty the spool by writing > it to tape. Once the spool has been emptied, the backup process (the > transfering over the network the data) continues again until the spool > reaches once again 10G. > > In my case I'm not sure I have the best setup possible for speed.
Probably not. Try running several (at least 3 ?) jobs in parallel, so some of them can spool data while the first one is blocked while spooled data is written to tape. The number of jobs you need obviously depends on how quickly you can collect and spool data, and on the speed of your tape drive. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Buy land. They've stopped making it." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
