OK I'm tried to use two disk and manually create the volumes. But this did not work I can not get around this insane coupling of job/pool to a specific storage device.
Why do I care what storage device is used ???? Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? Now I created the volumes in bconsole and could verify that they was created on the correct drive but when the job starts and picks a volume out of the pool it goes to the storage device that is on the job/pool (and yes you do need one) not the one that the volume is actually created on and that obviously fails. On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:29 +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > I have the same question in 3 different formats. > > 1. HELP!! > > > 2. I'm trying to setup a system where I start with one client and add > more as needed and where I start with one disk as storage and add more > as needed. Now the actual storage disks will be just JBOD but they will > be always mounted into the filesystem of the storage server. I do not > want to have to create any raid system for the storage. If a storage > disk is going bad I will simply replace it and delete all the > jobs/volumes that was stored on that disk. I'm counting on bacula to > realize what clients now needs to do a full/differential backup to again > have a valid backup. > > So what would be a good configuration for this setup?? > > > 3. I have been testing bacula for a few days now and while basic backup > of one client works fine in the different setup I tried it's hard to > figure out a way that is actually extensible when trying to store to > disks. > > Clearly mapping one disk to one volume is not going to work very well > due to retention time and reuse. > > creating a single disk storage and then having the clients do a singe > job to single volume worked nicely and is using the storage efficiently > when using one disk but I never figured out how to extend this system to > two disks. there is a one to one mapping from job to storage and I need > more than one storage device when adding the second disk. adding the > storage was just duplication the first one but how do I then use it ??? > I could assign a new client to the disk but this would really badly hurt > the utilization of the disk. very inefficient. > > I tried to experiment with the autoloader feature but then the meaning > of "Archive Device" changed meaning from the directory where volumes is > created in into the actual volume totally breaking the functionality. > > So now I'm thinking about some system where I have one storage device > per disk. But instead of allowing bacula to create the volumes at > demand(cant make it work on multiple storage devices) doing it manually > and putting the volumes in one common pool. by creating relatively small > volumes I can increase the probability that the data on every volume > will be from the same job and will have the same retention period so the > volume can efficiently be reused. Would this work ?? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
