----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Stracchino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kern Sibbald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arno Lehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.38 - Restore problem
> Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:18, Jonte Norman wrote: > >>Are there any plans to implement multiple storages devices for the > >>same client in future Bacula versions? > > > > No immediate plans. Once the SD starts for a Job, it locks on to a single > > device. > > You know, this brings up a potential issue. Is this true when restoring > as well as when backing up? I have a tentative plan (based on an offer > of an LTO1 drive) to start using LTO for my Full backups, for which my > VXA1 is no longer big enough to be really practical, but keep using the > VXA1 for incrementals, for which it's perfectly adequate. Backing up, > this isn't a problem, because any given Job running at a specified level > goes only to a single device. But does this mean that if I want to > restore a set of files on which some files come from a Full backup, and > some from Differential or Incremental, that I need to somehow split it > into two distinct jobs, perhaps by editing the BSR file? What about SDLT600 they r big enough and with proper compression and spooling you can achieve more than 600GB per tape.In one tape I got 1.5TB. Also the price difference for LTO's and SDLT are not much. > As a workaround, I think it wouldn't be too hard to come up with a tool > to split the BSR file into two or more BSRs by device. Can't test the > idea until I have a second drive, though. Arunav. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
