I finally have a working configuration of Bacula going and I still cannot figure out how to get what I've asked here to work.
I have a two drive Quantum tape unit (LTO2), but it is NOT an autoloader. It is just two tape drives in one chassis and the drives are individually addressed as /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst1. Tapes need to be manually loaded into these drives. Our current full backup is larger than one tape and so far I have only been able to get it to work with one drive which forces me to manually change a tape then next morning and finish the backup once users are logged onto the system. Is there any way to get Bacula to use both tape drives for a single job so that I can load each drive with a tape from the appropriate pool and then when the first tape fills it will automatically switch to the second drive and finish the backup without human intervention? I hope this makes sense and any help you can offer will be appreciated. Thanks, Bob Duman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Friedmann Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:08 PM To: 'bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Cascaded drive pool Hi Bob, Typically, it's automatic in Bacula. From example, you create a pool for each server you want to save (to file or tape doesn't matter) For each pool you define the number of volume you want, prelabeled or not (bacula could do this alone) and with correct definition for prunning / purging time, everything going fine. Read carefully the doc. All information needed is inside ;-) Bob Duman wrote: > I’ve been evaluating Symantec BackupExec and Bacula for use in backing up a 6 > to 8 server Windows environment and we’ll be adding Linux later. BackupExec > has a feature called “cascaded drive pools” where you can put two (or more) > tape drives in a pool and a job will use the first tape drive and then if > that tape fills it will use the second and so on. > > Is there any way to implement this feature in Bacula? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. > > Bob Duman > Senior Systems Engineer > > -- Bruno Friedmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ioda-Net Sàrl - www.ioda-net.ch 2830 Vellerat - Switzerland Tél : ++41 32 435 7171 Fax : ++41 32 435 7172 gsm : ++41 78 802 6760 C'est Facile et Cool d'Évoluer en ligne : www.cfcel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
