On 02/11/10 14:04, Richard Scobie wrote:
> I am just testing bacula prior to deployment and restored 7 files from
> one directory from a backup of 3TB.
>
> This backup is stored on 3 LTO4 volumes and in order to restore these 7
> files, it read from the first and third LTO4 volumes, when I would have
> expected them to all be adjacent to one another.
>
> Is this a deliberate policy to spread data across tapes or a reflection
> of the FS layout of the data being backed up?
If that's a backup of a single host, that sounds ... bizarre. The only
explanation I can think of is that there's a directory tree sitting in
somewhere between those seven files in the directory, that contains a
vast quantity of data. If you look at your filesystem, could this be
the case?
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