On Wednesday 10 January 2007 17:51, Joshua Colson wrote: > Is it possible to configure a backup Job to write to any available > storage device? For instance, assume I have two (or more) tape drives > without an autochanger.
Yes. > Is there a way to associate the two drives in a > pool that the backup job can then point to, such that it will use > whichever drive is available? Yes > Or another possible scenario is having two > storage servers and pooling them both among the defined jobs. I'm not sure what this means, but I imagine the answer is no. > > Thanks for any insight provided. > You simply specify multiple Storage resources on your Storage = directive, where each one is separated by commas. In version 2.0.0, any Storage = specified in a Pool will override what is specified in the Job resource. Downside to using multiple Storage specifications: 1. It is not well tested, and I doubt it is documented yet. 2. It works only with multiple devices on the *same* storage daemon. 3. If the devices have different media types, you will not be able to easily restore files. Bacula only automatically handles a single media type for restoring (currently). There is code to do this, but I doubt it works yet. 4. During a restore, the Volumes will most likely be requested on the last storgae device that wrote to the volume. 5. Once a backup Job has selected a drive, all subsequent Volumes needed to complete writing the data for that Job will use the same drive (i.e. it will not switch drives within a job -- yet). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
