hey all,
I'm not a bacula expert and have a question that hopefully this list can
answer. Been lurking for a while and appreciate all the good info.
We currently have a dataset of ~800 GB. Due to cost restrictions, I am
running an older single-drive LTO3 tape. I can usually get about 450 GB of
data on those tapes.
With that in mind, I was running into issues doing a full backup. I may
have been looking at it incorrectly or doing it wrong.
The backup schedule is incremental only.
The issue is that the full backup does not seem to complete. Bacula looks
at the dataset and says "ok, no full backup, let's do one." then the tape
fills up. Insert new tape, and the backup seems to start over, never
completing the initial full.
I handled it with some reg-ex's on the paths to exclude half the data, and
have two jobs for each dataset, thereby keeping the dataset for each job
under the tape capacity.
So, my question(s) is/are:
1. Will bacula span a full backup across multiple tapes?
2. Is it possible to have bacula write a single job (full or incremental)
across multiple tapes given that the job size exceeds the tape
capacity/free space?
3. If so, are there any specific job setting/flag considerations I should
look at?
I apologize if I am asking for too much info; ty for any advice.
-nick
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*Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator *
*5th Kind Digital Asset Management*
*www.5thkind.com <http://www.5thkind.com> | c: 661.645.3507 *
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