Thomas Mueller wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:26:45 +1000, James Harper wrote: > > >> I am running the bacula-sd on windows and using removable USB drives as >> the backup media. There are currently 3 disks labelled DISK001, DISK002, >> and DISK003. On each disk are volumes labelled the same as the disk but >> with a letter suffix, eg DISK001A, DISK001B, DISK001C, etc >> >> I plug the USB drive in and it defaults to F:. I then assign it to be >> V:, but when I swap disks over for the next backup, the new disk becomes >> F:, presumably because the system now has a new disk assignment for V: >> which invalidates the previous one. >> >> Is there a way around this to have multiple removable drives all assign >> to the same letter as long as only one is plugged in at once? >> > > maybe this tool is for you: > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html > > "many" years ago i used another one, but can't find it anymore. >
A partition does not have to be assigned a drive letter at all, as it turns out. It can be mount at a directory in a NTFS filesystem tree. Similar to *nix, except that instead of a single root, Windows has a multiple root file system tree. Each drive letter is a root. The root containing the mountpoint directory has to be NTFS, but the partition itself can have a FAT32 or any other filesystem for which there is a filesystem driver installed. That's the only way I've gotten drives to consistently be mounted at the same place. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
