On 05/10/2013 07:31 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> I am a bit surprised that no one mentioned Bacula's built-in virtual >> autochanger feature that has been there for years. The syntax for >> enabling it is a bit of a "kludge" in my opinion, but it is the way that >> Bacula >> Systems is recommending to handle multiple disk backup. > > It's been in there for years I know that however I get the sense that > its usage is not recommended from mostly older mailing list posts from > you and others on the development team.
Moreover, this
> Device {
> Name = FileChgr1-Dev1
> Media Type = File1
> Archive Device = /tmp
...
> Device {
> Name = FileChgr1-Dev2
> Media Type = File1
> Archive Device = /tmp
...
together with this
> Needless to say ... you can have a large number of drives in each
> [autochanger]
means "a large number of drives" need to be all mounted in /tmp at the
same time -- or there's some other crucial bit of information missing.
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Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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