Hello, 17.11.2009 00:49, Jerome Alet wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:35:12PM +1100, Jerome Alet wrote: >> We have an old bacula setup with a single tape drive as part of an >> autochanger, which holds three different pools for incremental, >> differential and full backups. On restore, the correct tape is correctly >> extracted from the database then mounted from the correct pool on our >> single tape drive. >> >> I'd like to replicate such functionnality on hard disks and a newer >> release of bacula (2.4.4-1 under Debian Lenny, AMD64 architecture, >> PostgreSQL backend). >> >> During backups, all my pools and volumes are used as needed. >> >> But during restore, what happens is that only volumes configured as >> being part of the pool defined for the "RestoreFiles" job are >> automatically mounted, and bacula waits for us to manually mount the >> other volumes, which don't seem to be possible since they are file >> volumes (i.e. always 'mounted') > > OK, I've fixed this particular problem by creating multiple Media Types.
Great... I was about to suggest that :-) > This was written in the documentation, but not about this particular > subject, about multiple concurrent accesses instead. At least you found it - but where did you initially look? (Just so we can, perhaps, improve the manual) > Now what about my other question (probably an easy one, I suppose I'll > have the answer anyway in a month or two...) > >> Another small question : >> >> As you can see above, I want to have very small volumes, but LOTS of >> them. When labelling them automatically, bacula only uses 4 digits, what >> will happen when it will reach 9999 ? > > Could someone tell me what happens then ? > > Does it automatically label the next volume as, for example, > "full-10000", That's what should happen, if I read the code correctly. Things will break if you end up with more than 19 digits. > or does it start over at "full-0001" and overwrite an > existing volume, or does it fail miserably because "full-0001" should > not be overwritten (if it's still full, as it will probably be) ? But - why do you want so many volumes that you expect to have 10,000 in a few months? Sounds a bit hard to manage... Cheers, Arno > Thanks. > > -- > Jérôme Alet - <jerome.a...@univ-nc.nc> - Centre de Ressources Informatiques > Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie - BPR4 - 98851 NOUMEA CEDEX > Tél : +687 266754 Fax : +687 254829 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
