[Bacula-users] is it possible to mark a full tape as appendable again

2011-06-06 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
it? Wonder whether anyone has done this in the past. Regards, -- Athanasios Douitsis, National Technical University of Athens NOC e: aduit...@noc.ntua.gr | t: +30-210-772-2409 -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your

[Bacula-users] scsi error while writing, tape marked full

2011-05-17 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
, is there a way to mark it appendable (from full that it is now) and use the rest of it? Is marking the tape appendable allowed after it has been marked full? 3.Any general remarks from anyone having experienced similar problems would of course be most welcome. Best Regards to all, -- Athanasios

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-08 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:29:44AM -0400, Bob Hetzel wrote: What CPU's do you have in your 2950? I'm backing up to two LTO-2 in my PowerEdge 2900 server (dual Xeon 5160 CPU's) and it seems to be pretty maxed out with two tape drives. On my R710 I only get 70MB/sec despool rates to LTO-4

[Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
understand that under like 40Mbytes/sec the drive constantly starts and stops, a process which is detrimental to its expected lifetime (and the tape's as well). Best Regards, -- Athanasios Douitsis, National Technical University of Athens NOC

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
to be a case of finding a spooling setup with enough I/O oomph. One question however, in your setup you have limited your concurrent jobs to 3 as in 3 jobs overall or as in 3 jobs per drive (9 overall)? Best Regards, Athanasios Douitsis, National Technical University of Athens NOC