Hello, On 11/30/2006 5:41 PM, John Drescher wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, *Mike B* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to back up 60Gb of data to hard disk storage. When > bacula is set > up to automatically label volumes, but when a job is run it creates > multiple > volumes, each with a 2 Gb file size. I don't specify any maximum > volume size > in bacula-dir.conf. Is there any way to force Bacula to write the > backup to > a single volume. > > I am using Bacula version 1.38.11 and RHEL4. The backups are being > written > to a windows box mounted via smbmount. > > > I think you need to mount the windows box using cifs instead as the > smbfs has a 2GB limit.
But keep in mind that, at least for the stable version, limiting he volume file size is a good idea anyway. The reason is that Bacula has to read the whole file instead of seeking to the position where it wants to read data. Yes, this is kind of a problem, and I believe it will be fixed in 1.40. Arno > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
