Hi, Does anyone have experience with the Quickport (or Quickport duo) [1] in combination with Bacula? I suppose one could use it to make backups to disk, without the need for an expensive multi-disk-enclosure (with or without RAID). This would work more like backups to tape (with manual tape exchanging), but instead of using tapes one can use disks.
[1] http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/externe_gehaeuse/sata_quickport/index_en.html There are many advantages: - Disks can be much faster than tape; - The big disadvantage of disk-to-disk backups (huge amounts of always simultaneously online disks needed) doesn't apply; - Cheap. Why cheap? Because in this world of ever-increasing storage needs, lots of hard disks become useless while still in perfect shape. I myself have stacks of ~400GB disks with no more purpose, since I upgraded to >TB disks. If I could use these to make backups to, it would save me quite some money. However I'm not sure if Bacula would allow me to make a disk-to-disk backup to one disk, then ask me to plug in the next disk and continue. Any thoughts? Regards, Erik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
