In response to "Dan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, newbie here. Forgive me if this has been asked before, but I > couldn't find it when searching the archives. > > We're switching from Backup Exec to bacula, and I'm trying to figure out > how to do the some of things that we were doing with BE. I haven't > really had much of a problem making our backup schema work with bacula, > but there is one feature that I think is very handy in BE and don't know > if it is supported in bacula. In BE, I can take 2 tape drives that are > the same and "pool" them. In this way, if a backup job runs out of room > on tape 1, it automatically switches over to the second tape drive. > This avoids switching tapes mid-job. > > In bacula, I can only figure out how to make 1 Job go to 1 Storage > device. Is there a way to accomplish this in bacula? Not supported? > In the works? On the wishlist?
I don't _know_ the answer to your question, but I had an idea. What happens if you define an autochanger resource and make the two drives part of an autochanger? Even though there is no _true_ autochanger, it seems to me that the logic would be there to make it do what you want. HTH. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
