Hello Kern,
I have set the Maximum File Size to 10 GByte for my LTO5 drive. According
to the documentation [1], every time the Maximum File Size is reach a EOF
is written to the tape, the tape will stop. To avoid this, the Maximum
File Size should set to a higher value.
Until now, I'm fine
Hello Jummo,
Yes, writing an EOF on a tape drive will significantly slow it down. I
am not
sure it actually stops the tape drive. For an LTO-5 I recommend a Maximum
File Size of 5G, but I don't see any serious problem with 10G. The downside
of a larger Maximum File Size is that it takes longer
Hello James,
Normally Bacula imports or creates everything from the bscanned
Volume that is needed to do proper restores. It can possibly have
problems if your original job spanned two volumes and you only
bscanned one.
The other problem might be in your bacula-sd.conf file. What
value do you
Hi James,
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, James Harper wrote:
I needed to restore from some old disk media which had long since been purged
from the catalog. I bscan'd it back in and started a restore but it's taking
_ages_. Normally a restore from disk gets started in seconds and then is
basically
I needed to restore from some old disk media which had long since been purged
from the catalog. I bscan'd it back in and started a restore but it's taking
_ages_. Normally a restore from disk gets started in seconds and then is
basically limited by network/media speed. This restore seems to
