This discussion comes up every few weeks so I would search the archives. Also look into the disk-changer script as it may help a lot.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Martin Schmid <s...@apsag.com> wrote: > Kevin is right stating that there's some room for improvments. I'm using > bacula for both tape and disk backups and I'm still searching for 'the > best' solution to implement swapable drives. > > Bacula needs to know the devices and this is difficult for drives that > are hot-swapped. > > I'm using a workaround by udev. Udev can be taught to always create my > Maxtor USB-Drive as /dev/icybox1 while any disk found on my > SATA-Controller shows up as /dev/icybox5. For bacula this is a situation > it can handle. It's not natively bacula, though. > udev rules are the standard way to prevent the operating system from changing device nodes for devices bacula sees. I use this even for tape devices. > > The other problem with disks is that there's no clear instruction to the > operator. How should an operator know that the volume BOX_1723 is > located on the physical disk #3? So what to do when bacula asks for it? > > The only way is to disable autolabelling. The admin needs to set up a > known range of volumes and write a sticker to mark the drives with the > volumes on it. > I would prelabel 10 to 20 volumes on each disk. You can easily script this from the shell injecting commands into bconsole. Something like: echo "label ..." | bconsole in a bash for loop. > > It would be great if bacula could use a device just like it uses a > single tape drive: without file system on it, up to its capacity, and > being the volume itself. > You could create just one volume on the drive and that would do this. However this is not good for recycling. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
