On Monday 13 November 2006 22:25, Josh Fisher wrote: > Attached is a "Bacula And Removable Disk HOWTO" that describes a method > and script I am using for backing up to USB disk drives on Fedora Core > 4. USB disk drives are used as virtual magazines for emulating a > mult-drive magazine-based tape library with barcode reader. The > "magazines" and the volumes they contain are handled from within > bconsole exactly as one would handle tape magazines for a tape device. > > I believe it should work on most *nix systems that have udev and autofs > capability. Likewise, though USB drives are used as an example, it > should work with Firewire, eSATA, etc. hot-swappable drives so long as > the OS supports them. > > The script and method were developed using Bacula version 1.39.24, but > should work on the 1.38.* and above releases. The script relies on the > OS (via udev and autofs) to mount and unmount removable drives, so does > not use any of the new 1.39.* directives. > > Enjoy!
Could you send me your document as an attachment, and I will consider either putting it on the web site or adding it as a chapter to the manual, which would take a bit of work since the manual is in LaTeX format ... Thanks for your contribution, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
