> 1. Would I be better off using migration instead of spooling? e.g. back up > everything to disk overnight and then later migrate to tape. I am probably > OK for disk space, and my main aims are to get backups through as quickly as > possible and prevent my LTO2 drives from shoe-shining. > I have no experience with migration so I can not comment on that.
> 2. Is spooling better geared to using a few Gb only of disk space just to > buffer up the tape drive and keep it moving? I have 30 to 40 clients that get backed up each night. What I do is set the spool size to 2GB and have concurrent jobs running to the same tapes. > 3. Is it recommended to keep Windows and Solaris backups on separate volumes > (tapes) or is it OK to mix them. I think if I used the same tapes for > everything there would be fewer opportunities for delays, but I don't want > to introduce problems by doing so. > I have all my system (linux and windows) backups going to the same pool. But my user backups and other specific jobs go to different pools. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
