On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:26 +0200, Bernd Schoeller said:
> >>
> >> Is there an easy way to add more volumes to the FileStorage in a
> >> different directory?
> >
> > Not within bacula itself.
> >
> > It might work with symbolic links (create a volume on /store, use mv to
> move
> > it to /store2, use ln -s to link from /store to /store2).
> >
> > A better way might be to convert /store and /store2 into an LVM partition
> so
> > it can use both disks for one directory.
> >
> Be careful with the LVM. If one drive dies (unless both are RAIDs) you
> loose all of your backups. I would instead use the bacula vchanger.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/
>
> With the vchanger I would make each storage a virtual magazine.
> However the conversion would probably require migration and I believe
> you may run into problems if the storages are different sizes.
>
>
The documentation also says not to use vchanger for anything other than
testing.
Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University
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