Hello,

On 4/1/2007 12:01 AM, Jean-François Leroux wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to bacula. I'm running it on debian etch and it is bacula 1.38.11-8.
> I want to backup several servers on a backup server with  a big disk 
> array. However, I think a single huge backup would be rather messy (or 
> tedious) to restore in case of a crash.

It would even be slow.

> So I wonder if there is a way to 
> create several volumes (labels) in the same storage (FileStorage).

Yes. See the configuration directives MaximumVolumeBytes etc.

> Ideally, I'd like to have a different volume per server, so that I could 
> search the backup  or restore some files from it easily. Something like 
> that (simplified :-D) :
> 
> +---------------------+  +---------------------+
> +  server 1        +  +  server 2        +
> +---------------------+  +----------------------+
> 
>          --    FileStorage ---------
>         +                              +
>          |                               |
> +---------------------+ +----------------------+
> +   Volume1     +  +   Volume2      +
> +---------------------+ + ----------------------+

You can do that, but that's not what Bacula does best.

You'd have to set up separate pools for all your servers, which is 
something I would usually avoid.

Arno

> Cheers.
> Jean-François
> 
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