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Hello,
this is not quite correct.
In bacula-dir.conf you can define:
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Label Format = "ABC-"
Maximum Volumes = 10000
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1GB
Use Volume Once = yes
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 60 days # bp let's start with 2 months
}
This will create multiple files each of a max. size of 1 GB. All file names
will start with 'ABC-' followed by a number.
A USB stick or a USB connected harddisk (they are becoming very popular right
now) is a removable device. As such you want to make sure that it has been
mounted before using it.
For that purpose I created a file named 'bkdisk' on the USB device.
- not mounted: /mnt/hdd/ -> empty
- mounted: /mnt/hdd/bkdisk -> does exist
Now you define a job starting before the backup which will check for the file
'bkdisk'. If it's not found we try to mount the device and check again.
Obviously, you could do that with different devices as well. 'bkdisk1',
'bkdisk2' etc.
Cheers,
Bernd
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:45:13 +0000
bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Bacula *can* back up to hard disks, but it is a bit kludgy. For hard
> disk backups, Bacula uses one file per volume, and your USB drive is
> treated like a tape drive. Now you and I know that you can't take a
> single file out of a hard disk the way you can remove a tape from a tape
> drive. Bacula doesn't know that, and you may at times get a message to
> insert and mount a particular file that bacula wants.
- --
Bernd Plagge - プラゲ ベェアント
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