At this interview: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html
one of Nathan Valentine's main objectives in bacula's initial design, was to address "an inability to span multiple volumes in Amanda". So! What is a volume? how can I asign/relate my hard drives to the concept of volumes into the type of configuration that may best fit my needs without complicating the process? or is that very basic feature not (yet) implemented/available/possible? --- Michael Lewinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Pedro, bom dia. > > Bacula's volumes DO NOT span drives. I repeat. OK, I > do not... Each drive > needs to have its own "device" set up in storage, > and separate volumes > created on each one of them. On the other hand, > maybe you can use the same > pool for all your volumes, even if they are on > different disks, and > prepopulate the pool with volumes (label command). > So a backup would > effectively jump from one disk to the other. > > For some reason this volume and pool mixup sounds to > me as the worst DRP > solution one could find, except maybe for using Led > Zeppelin audio tapes as > backup media, and trying to retrieve data by > listening to it on a tape > player. I'd recommend not trying your idea on a > production server. > > Please update me if your setup works anyway. I do > not have the time to setup > a test environment on virtualbox. > > Michael > > On 10/30/07, pedro noticioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I have a single file server with 2x 512 GB hard > > drives. > > > > Ive been given a bunch of older hard drisk to > backup > > to: > > > > 1x 80 IDE GB > > 1x 100 IDE GB > > 2x 200 IDE GB > > 1x 320 IDE GB > > > > > > Actual disk usage on the file server that I will > > backup is only 200 GB but growing, and I would > like to > > set something up that may allow me to easilly add > and > > remove different size hard drives in the future. > > > > In case a backup drive dies, Id like to turn off > the > > backup server, remove the dead one, install a new > one, > > boot, configure, and let bacula play with it. > > > > My concern is on: > > letting bacula access any number of drives > > letting bacula know the size available on each > > making sure that volumes just span through all > > available drives. > > > > I noticed disk-changer script, but I googled for a > > couple hours and found no documentation at all, so > Ive > > been wondering if someone here may have done > something > > like this already and may share an example > > > > or, someone please confrim to me that this > > > > > > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Autochanger_Resource1.html#SECTION003220000000000000000 > > > > is the right direction where I should go? > > > > and some details, on my speciffic setup may help > > > > oorrr! > > > > is there a simpler way? I dont like complicating > > things, I was hoping on > > > > Device = /disk1, /disk2, /disk3, /disk4, /disk5 > > > > straight into the sd configuration ;) > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.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 > > > > > > -- > Michael Lewinger > MBR Computers > http://mbrcomp.co.il > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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
