>>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:51:18 -0400, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users said: > > On 8/24/23 05:32, Lionel PLASSE wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For usb harddrive and file media volume, when I do a restore job I get a > > long waiting step : "Forward spacing Volume "T1" to addr=249122650420" > > I remember I managed to configure the storage resource to quickly restore > > sdd drives. > > > > Should I use fastforward, blockpositionning and HardwareEndOfFile for USB > > disks and file volume? > > How to avoid this long forwarding when not a tape device? > > > I don't think any of those affect file type storage (random access > devices).
Agreed. > Probably you have compression and/or encryption turned on. In > that case, Bacula cannot simply fseek to the offset. It has to > decompress and/or decrypt all data in order to find it, making restores > far slower than backups. The compression and/or encryption is done within each block, so tnat doesn't affect seek time. __Martin _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
