Thanks for the response Kern,
Swimming in new waters... Story of my life.
First I'm going to have to see how linux responds to hot swapped drives...
Perhaps I can emulate a tape drive in software? Shouldn't be much more to it
than communicating with Bacula like a tape drive would...
Time to hit the books.
Thanks again for your time,
David
P.S. Love the penguin in your signature!
From: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: "David Thurston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] RAID or What?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:53:16 +0100
On Sunday 19 March 2006 11:17, David Thurston wrote:
> At this point I'd also welcome some indication that anyone has even read
> this....
You are probably swimming in new waters ...
Bacula 1.38.5 is not very friendly toward removable media other than tapes.
Possibly the virtual autochanger will work -- if:
1. You modify it to use links to other filesystems rather than files (you
are
pretty much on your own here).
2. You do an "update slots scan" after each hotplug (this is untried, and
again you are pretty much on your own here too).
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> >From: "David Thurston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> >Subject: [Bacula-users] RAID or What?
> >Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:08:36 -0700
> >
> >I have a 4 Drive, Hot Swappable, External SATA Enclosure with 1+ Tb of
> >storage.
> >
> >My goal is to be able to rotate drives off-site and just plug in
> >(recycle) new drives for on-site backup like very big tapes.
> >
> >I can set it up RAID 5 so that I get parity and hotswap rebuild via the
> >RAID
> >setup, but that doesn't allow for moving data off site.
> >
> >Is there some way to use this new feature (Virtual Disk Autochanger) or
> >some other way to treat the individual drives as really big removable
> >tapes?
> >
> >Is there some other way I haven't concidered?
> >
> >I know that Kern was working on something for hot swap drives from
> >reviewing posts in the archive over the last few months.
> >
> >Has anyone crossed this bridge yet?
> >
> >All hand holding welcome ;)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >David
>
--
Best regards,
Kern
(">
/\
V_V
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language
that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast
and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory!
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
