On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Uwe Bartels <uwe.bart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > thanks for your answer. > I'm pretty sure, that the drive is supported, but I have to check this. > What about the tape library? I heard in bacula i have to do the programming > for the 24 or 48 tape library. Is that true? > > Does bacula support multiple tape drives? Yes. I use a 2 drive auto changer and I have 2 other drives along with more than 1 disk storage.
> I'd like to have 2 tape drives for: > - doing simultaneuously backup and restore > - having the second tape drive in place if one the other fails. You can do this. A single job will never use more than 1 drive but independent jobs can. > - being able to run daily backups with one drive and weekly,monthly,... > backups on the other for creating an offsite backup > This is fine. You can even locate the 2nd tape drive offsite if you want. > > With amanda this works out, but I have to create 2 configuration and > therefor having 2 catalogs. I want to have 1 catalog if possible. > You can do this with 1 catalog, however if you want independent jobs you will probably need 2 job definitions. This way the offsite backups will not be linked to the local backups. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
