On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:16, Frank Sweetser wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:54:04PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > If the directive is set to no, the Storage daemon will prefer
> > finding an unused drive, otherwise, each job started will append to
> > the same Volume (assuming the Pool is the same for all jobs). Setting
>
> Excellent! This is exactly the scenario I'm in - an autochanger with two
> drives, only one of which is currently in use. Two questions about this
> feature, though:
>
> 1) I'm assuming that once a given volume is picked for a job, all data from
> that job will go to that volume (assuming the volume doesn't fill up, of
> course). Ie, if the job is large enough that it has to be despooled in
> several passes, will bacula ensure that it doesn't get split up
> unecessarily?
Yes.
>
> 2) I'd like to start setting up different pools and policies for full vs
> incremental/differentials, so that older full backups can easily be
> transfered to offsite storage. To facilitate this, I'd like to be able to
> have all of a given run of full backups end up on a single tape set. Will
> using both drives like this interfere with doing so?
I don't think so, but your question is not very clear, so I'm not sure. The
only reservation I have is what is mentioned at the end of my text about jobs
run on different days.
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Best regards,
Kern
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