On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ralf Gross wrote:

> How usefull is spooling in this case?

Not useful if only doing one job.

Essential if running concurrent jobs.

> For 2TB I would need ~18h with spooling and ~11h without. I'm not sure
> how critical shoe shining is for LTO3 drives. But it would be
> definitly nice if one could spool and despool data at the same time.
> So that bacula starts despooling to tape right after filling the
> buffer with a certain amount of data.

It only does this for concurrent jobs.

Note that keeping up with an LTO3 drive requires FAST spooling/despooling 
operations and this can only be achieved by striping across multiple 
physical drives.



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