Re: [Bacula-users] Write ordering?

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Scobie
Phil Stracchino wrote: > If that's a backup of a single host, that sounds ... bizarre. The only > explanation I can think of is that there's a directory tree sitting in > somewhere between those seven files in the directory, that contains a > vast quantity of data. If you look at your filesyste

Re: [Bacula-users] Write ordering?

2010-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/11/10 14:04, Richard Scobie wrote: > I am just testing bacula prior to deployment and restored 7 files from > one directory from a backup of 3TB. > > 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

Re: [Bacula-users] Write ordering?

2010-02-11 Thread John Drescher
> 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 th

[Bacula-users] Write ordering?

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Scobie
I am just testing bacula prior to deployment and restored 7 files from one directory from a backup of 3TB. 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 anot