Hi there,
I'm using a Quantum LTO-7 tape drive. When I start a job, the drive does
with the tape:
*bacula-sd JobId 269: Volume "CRInc-001" previously written, moving to
end of data.
**bacula-sd JobId 269: Ready to append to end of Volume "CRInc-001" at
file=5.**
**bacula-sd JobId 269: Spooling data ...*
so far so good. After 30 min, the tape drive rewinds the tape to BOT
(spooling is still in progress) and after spooling is completed, the
tape is moved again to the end of data and then it starts despooling.
Question 1): is the rewinding of the tape after 30 min a feature of
bacula or of the tape drive? Is it to protect the out taken tape? Can I
change the 30 min time and how long will be good?
Question 2): Can I avoid moving to the end before starting the data
spooling? Why does bacula do this? If is there during despooling no
enough space left, it will ask for a new volume. Or other spoken: can it
start spooling without checking the end of the tape? How to configure it?
Question 3): Would it be better to do "backup to disk to tape" instead
of using spooling to prevent unnecessary forward and back winding of the
tapes?
Thanks, Frank
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