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List:       bacula-users
Subject:    Re: [Bacula-users] Multiplexing multiple jobs to tape
From:       Alan Brown <ajb2 () mssl ! ucl ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2007-09-13 16:02:59
Message-ID: 46E95F33.4010006 () mssl ! ucl ! ac ! uk
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Chris Howells wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out whether bacula supports multiplexing multiple 
> simultaneous backup jobs to the same tape - having googled, the results 
> are inconclusive :)
>   
Yes, but you end up with interleaved jobs on tape and restore becomes 
VERY slow due to the drive having to constantly shoeshine while skipping 
over the other interleaved jobs.

It is far better to build a very fast raid0 array to spool data onto and 
then dump that spool to tape.



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