Hello, 17.11.2009 02:48, Jerome Alet wrote: > Hi again, > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:09:03AM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> 17.11.2009 00:49, Jerome Alet wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:35:12PM +1100, Jerome Alet wrote: ... >>>> 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) > > I think I've searched this a lot in resources definitions, especially > pools, but the answer is (somewhat hidden) there : > > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#ConcurrentDiskJobs > > Maybe this could be clarified but I don't really know where nor how, > since I'm a bacula newbie (our existing setup was put in place before I > landed here)
Hmm... well, then, perhaps simply mentioning this in the description of the Pool Resource would help. >>>> 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 ? ... >>> 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... > > I knew the question would come ! > > :-) > > I'm currently doing some testing and I like to play with things to see > if the solution is robust. Excellent approach! > When in production my volumes will certainely > be bigger than 32 MB as they are now. Ok, now I don't worry any more :-) Arno -- 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
