On 2/2/2011 12:29 PM, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:34 -0500, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson<kenn...@southpole.se> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: >>>> Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: >>>>> Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? >>>> you could add a pool for every disk and tell bacula which pool it has to >>>> use on each day. You can tell bacula which pool to use via schedule for >>>> example. >>> hmm yes but still it's not very efficient use of disk space. I'm going >>> to solve my problem by using lvm and doing a raid0 of all the disks. I >>> do have a rather low upper limit of storage usage that will mean I will >>> only have a handfull of disks anyway. >>> >>> But I do think there is something missing in bacula to handle backing up >>> to disk with more than one disk. >>> >>> I guess it's possible to get the autoloader script to work in some way >>> but it's not entirely clear to me how to do it. >>> >> You are using raid 0 and LVM for your bacula store? I would never ever >> do that. I even caution about using a single raid 5/6 for that. How >> about individual disks and the bacula virtual disk changer. Make each >> physical disk a virtual magazine. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ >> >> John > > That was useful I have not had the time to do any testing but I do see a > few issues. What if the disks is of different size ?? > > The numbers of slots (there is one volume per slot) is globally defined. > so a 2T disk and a 1T disk is getting the same amount. The volume size > is then specified in the pool or storage config and they can't > differentiate the two different sized disks. > > So you can not have different sized disks or am I reading it wrong?
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