I am by no means an expert, but I can hopefully give you my experience. A backup that I inherited was set up with 2 disks, a storage for each disk, and a pool for each storage. Apparantly, bacula can sometimes get confused when two storages use the same media. Because more than once, my backups would try to load a volume on the wrong storage.
Even worse -- This backup system put the full backups in Pool A on Storage A and the associated incrementals in Pool B on Storage B. When I needed to do a restore, it found all of the jobs, and then asked me which Storage should it use to find the volumes -- Storage A or Storage B? Apparantly, "Both" was not an acceptable answer. So I believe the correct answer is: Disk A Storage A Pool A Machine 1 Machine 2 Machine 3 Disk B Storage B Pool B Machine 4 Machine 5 Machine 6 And hopefully, never the 'twain shall meet. Now, each of my disks is 2TB. If you've got a 16-bay JBOD and, say, 12 100GB disks, then you might be even better off setting up a striped logical volume at the OS level, and tell Bacula that it's a single disk. Mike Hobbs writes: > I'm still on my quest to get bacula to write data to more than one >disk drive.. I have a 16-bay JBOD unit. I was pointed to "vchanger" but >as bacula is a bit complicated already, I don't want to add a 3rd party >program into the mix as well (unless I have to). I also have to believe >that bacula can write to more than one disk without this software package. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hy...@lactose.homelinux.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that. --overheard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
