On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:36, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: > Hi ! > > I`m not sure if this is possible so i`m asking here. > > We have 4 tapedrives connected to our backupserver. Is it possible to > insert a blank tape into each one, bacula then starts to write to the > first tapedrive (labeling the tape in the process) and when that tape is > filled it continues to write on the second drive ?
This is not currently possible using Bacula directly. It will very likely work in the next major release. However, see below. > And after that the > third and fourth and then wait for a new tape to be inserted into drive 1 ? > > I would use this to migrate all disk-based volumes to one archive-pool > on tapes. > > I got the impression that something like this would be possible with an > autochanger configuration. Several people have written virtual mtx-changer scripts that could make what you want work. If I remember right, they are somewhere in the examples directory. In addition, there is a disk-changer script that *could* with some work accomplish this. That script is currently used for simulating multiple drive autochangers on disk, and the same principles that it uses (ln -s ...) can be used to accomplish what you want with tape drives. Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
