[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/19/10 01:37, der Mouse wrote:
> As for modifying Bacula, well, (a) perhaps that means Bacula isn't a
> good choice for you, and (b) maybe telling Bacula it's got a buffer
> area, which happens to actually be a ramdisk, would work?

Yeah, that actually occurred to me later, given a tape server with
sufficient memory.

>> I hate applying band-aids - especially complex, labor-intensive
>> band-aids - that don't actually address the underlying problem.
> 
> Ah, but what _is_ the underlying problem?  That's a serious question.
> Decide what you want to do before you try to do it.  If your goal is to
> stop shoeshining, for example, then this does fine.

Well, "stop shoeshining" is a part of it, but the shoeshining is really
a symptom.  The real goal is "move data to the drive as close as
possible to its maximum sustained data rate, so that full backups
complete as fast as possible."  This first trial full backup to LTO-2
has taken about eighteen hours, and shown up several problems.


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