> This backup is stored on 3 LTO4 volumes and in order to restore these 7 > files, it read from the first and third LTO4 volumes, when I would have > expected them to all be adjacent to one another. > > Is this a deliberate policy to spread data across tapes or a reflection > of the FS layout of the data being backed up? >
There is no deliberate policy of spreading data across multiple tapes. It is more a function of FS order and concurrent jobs. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users