Re: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Jay Lawrence wrote: One thing that would be super desirable I have a bunch of clients (5 so far) that I wanna back up however If the tape fills up, all the remaining jobs block waiting for the tape to be free worst case The first client blocks - four 4 remaing jobs block until

Re: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-22 Thread Jay Lawrence
Actually I re-read the docs. It says that upping the max concurrent jobs in the director is good - and they will be despooled exclusively one by one to tape. Cool - I will do that tonight and see how goes. Jay On 22-Jun-05, at 5:11 PM, Jay Lawrence wrote: One thing that would be super desir

Re: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-22 Thread Jay Lawrence
One thing that would be super desirable I have a bunch of clients (5 so far) that I wanna back up however If the tape fills up, all the remaining jobs block waiting for the tape to be free worst case The first client blocks - four 4 remaing jobs block until we can shove in a new tape

RE: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:51 -0500, Chris Lee wrote: > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Data_Spooling.html > > Thanks, > Chris Thank you very much. This is exactly what I'm looking for. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- S

RE: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-21 Thread Chris Lee
[Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups > > I'm converting an existing Amanda setup. The amanda server has a > harddrive setup as the buffer drive for data coming from servers and > going to tape. Is there an equivilant method in Bacula? Previous > bacul

[Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-21 Thread Jesse Keating
I'm converting an existing Amanda setup. The amanda server has a harddrive setup as the buffer drive for data coming from servers and going to tape. Is there an equivilant method in Bacula? Previous bacula instances I have setup have done backup straight to harddrive and weekly dumps to tape, th