Hello,
2013/5/24 Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>
> 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.
>
>
No. This solution was first proposed by me in this thread with a mail from
3 May 2013 17:04. Then Kern (a week later) was suggested that it is a good
solution too. It will require some kind of RAID or LVM for proper work.
AFAIR You rejected this kind of setup:
>> (Radek):
>> Why not to use LVM or RAID to use all available hard disk space (12 x
sata)
>> for backups? Believe me, it is simpler to create a single filesystem for
>> backups then use vchanger script (it is overcomplicated and IMVHO
useless).
> (Dimitri):
> Yes, and in a place that doesn't have 10 years retention policy I have a
> 36-drive box that's set up exactly like that. Unfortunately this
> installation comes with different requirements.
best regards
--
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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