> So it looks like when Bacula/btape writes an EOF mark, this causes the
> buffers to completely flush out and the drive then runs out of data
> and is forced to stop and shoe-shine.
>
> I've had a look through the storage daemon options but I can't see
> anything relevant. I take it disabling th
> > I think I have everything set up, all the tapes are labelled and Bacula
> > switches tapes when each one fills up, however after the first tape
> > started writing at 80MB/sec, the rest of them only write at 60-65MB/sec.
> > [...]
>
> Are you sure that both the drive and the tapes are still
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:34:39 -0700
Chandler wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote on 12/21/18 01:34:
> > You should be aware that the project no long support SQLite as it
> > is not suitable for backups of the size we are seeing today. We do
> > leave the code in Bacula so that users can upgrade to MySQ
Am 22.12.2018 um 01:46 schrieb Adam Nielsen:
> I've been using Bacula for a number of years but recently got hold of
> an old tape autochanger with an LTO-4 drive, which I would like to use
> to have Bacula write to tape instead of my previous disk/file config.
>
> I think I have everything set u
Hello Adam,
> Yes I am. Sorry, when I say "rewind" it is only backtracking for maybe
> one second or so to search for the end of the data, ready to append
> again.
>
> It is proper "shoe-shining", the drive behaves exactly the same if I
> write data to it with another application but write too s
> > I did not expect the drive to shoe-shine many times during the same
> > despool operation. Do you have any idea why this might be
> > happening?
>
> Are you using the -nst device (non-rewindable) configuration on SD
> Archive Device directive value?
Yes I am. Sorry, when I say "rewind" it
> Hi Heitor,
Hello Adam,
> Thanks for your reply!
>
>> > Listening to the unit the drive stops, rewinds, then starts again
>> > quite a lot, so the drop in write speed appears to be due to
>> > shoe-shining.
>>
>> For a continuous tape writing with spooling spool size should be at
>> least the
Hi Heitor,
Thanks for your reply!
> > Listening to the unit the drive stops, rewinds, then starts again
> > quite a lot, so the drop in write speed appears to be due to
> > shoe-shining.
>
> For a continuous tape writing with spooling spool size should be at
> least the same size of the tape. IM
> Hi all,
Hello Adam,
> I've been using Bacula for a number of years but recently got hold of
> an old tape autochanger with an LTO-4 drive, which I would like to use
> to have Bacula write to tape instead of my previous disk/file config.
>
> I think I have everything set up, all the tapes are
