On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:06:47AM -0400, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: > [A], while it should be close to [B]. The reason for > the decrease in performance is that bacula stops all > spooling as soon as it starts de-spooling. > In an ideal configuration, there could be multiple spool directories defined, > and bacula would open a new spool file in the next directory as soon as it > begins despooling.
We run 1 spool directory and several concurrent jobs spool to it. While one gets despooled, the others continue spooling. However, if you run out of spool space, spooling is stopped on all jobs till a complete despooling is done. Best practice IMHO with big disks: - SpoolSize large enough to hold most of your backups completly - Spool Directory large enough to hold several jobs In my case most backups are <50GB, incrementals often only <100MB. I use a 1TB Spool Directory and a Spool Size of 800GB, large enough for all but my biggest backup job. It works fine here. Regards, Adrian -- LiHAS - Adrian Reyer - Hessenwiesenstraße 10 - D-70565 Stuttgart Fon: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 90 - Fax: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 91 Mail: li...@lihas.de - Web: http://lihas.de Linux, Netzwerke, Consulting & Support - USt-ID: DE 227 816 626 Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users