On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:51 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I've seen requests like yours before, and never really answered them because > I > didn't really know what to do with them. However, for some reason, this > email peaked my interest, and I dug out an old 64MB USB device that I > received from Dell when I bought a computer some time ago. I plugged the > silly thing into my laptop and after a bit of scrounging around found that > all I needed to do was mount it, and presto, I had a removable filesystem.
I am using 250/300Gb disks in enclosures. > Anyway, concerning Bacula working with these USB removable filesystems. The > big problem is that Bacula doesn't understand what a removable filesystem is > (except for DVDs) and hence expects *all* your Volumes to be online all the > time. Ah! > It seems to me that with a bit of tweaking, not only could Bacula be made to > know what is and what is not online, but it could also automatically mount > the Volume if needed. All I need to do is steal (well, adapt is a better > word) a bit of the DVD code. That would be great, but I know youre adding loads of other projects and the recent voting did not include this. > In the mean time, dealing with these things won't be so simple for you. What > you need to do is write two little scripts that you run: 1. a script that you > run just before you remove a device, and 2. a script that you run when you > insert the device. Presently I can do this manually as we only swap once every few weeks. > The first script should find all the Bacula Volumes on the device (simple if > you only have Bacula Volumes on it) then mark them with status "Disabled" in > the catalog if the current catalog status is "Append". How can I do that - is there a command or bconsole argument? > The second script would do the inverse -- for each Bacula Volume on the > device > that is marked with status "Disabled" in the catalog, it would change it to > "Append". > > This would solve 90% of all the problems -- there will be additional problems > with Volumes that are marked Purged or Recycled. If you really want to > handle those correctly, in the first script, you will mark all the Volumes > currently on the device as "Disabled", and save their prior status (and > Volume name) in a file on the device. The second script would then reverse > the process by setting the catalog status back to what it previously was. > > The above is a bit of a kludge, but I don't see any other way to do it > without > modifying Bacula code -- perhaps some clever user knows a better way. I see > no reason why Bacula could not be modified to handle this automatically, but > that requires some code and programming time ... Thanks for the answer/thoughts. I think that a few people are trying to use USB drives, and more would do so if bacula supported it better. Greg ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
