Hello Jason,

On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:01:03 Jason A. Kates wrote:
> Kern,
>
> I am confused by your statement:
> "
> Yes, I am working on this now (a very low priority project for the
> moment) but it will probably only be in the Enterprise version and not
> in the community version."
>
> Are you looking to start having features only in the paid for version?

Yes.  For the moment, it is really quite minimal.  The Bacula Systems web site 
should in the next few weeks when we announce Enterprise version 4.0 explain 
these differences.  For the moment, it is limited to some minor rescue key 
parts and to Windows plugins.

>
> I thought that all versions would have access to the same code, this is
> from your web site:
> "
> There will be no separate “enterprise version” of the Bacula source
> code. www.bacula.org will continue to be the home for Bacula project
> development."

I need to change that.  Can you tell me *exactly* where you found it?

Hopefully my response to Wolfram answered any of your concerns.

Kern

>
>                               Thanks -Jason
>
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 15:18 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 June 2010 14:20:32 Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> > > * Wolfram Schlich <[email protected]> [2010-05-14 17:54]:
> > > > * Ulrich Leodolter <[email protected]> [2010-05-14 13:09]:
> > > > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 10:27 +0200, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm using Bacula 5.0.2 to back up to a tape library
> > > > > > which has two LTO-4 FC tape drives. Backup speed is
> > > > > > around 95-100 MB/s which is quite ok (using a DAS
> > > > > > for spooling data though).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now, when running a copy job that copies backups
> > > > > > from a tape from the full or incr backup pool to
> > > > > > a tape from the offsite pool, speed reaches 50MB/s
> > > > > > maximum, so it's just half as fast as the backups.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What could be the reason for that?
> > > > >
> > > > > copy is NOT done in multi-threaded buffered way.
> > > > > it is done one by one block (default is 63k)
> > > > >
> > > > > ...
> > > > > read block N
> > > > > write block N
> > > > > read block N+1
> > > > > write block N+1
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > so you get about the half speed.
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > this is why we do a second copy-disk-to-tape
> > > > > using a special sql query to make offsite copies.
> > > >
> > > > Well, the problem for us is that we don't backup
> > > > to disk because the storage isn't big enough for
> > > > that, so we backup to tape using the storage as
> > > > spool device (which is able to spool data for 4
> > > > LTO4 tapes).
> > >
> > > Dear Kern, dear Bacula developers,
> > >
> > > do you plan to change this part of the implementation
> > > of Bacula to greatly improve the speed of copy jobs
> > > for tape-to-tape copies?
> >
> > Yes, I am working on this now (a very low priority project for the
> > moment) but it will probably only be in the Enterprise version and not in
> > the community version.
> >
> > Kern
> >
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