Hello everyone I have a situation where I need to be able to have two devices, each of "Media Type = File" that point to the same Archive Device (directory). This directory contains ~500+ 10GB file volumes on a ~6TB array.
The first device will write to three pools (Full, Diff, Inc) each with different retention periods, while the second device will ONLY write to a single pool (ClientName) with a completely separate retention period. Each of the Pools will be set to recycle to the Scratch pool. With this setup, volumes from either device will be available to the other device (and Pools) once they have been recycled to the Scratch pool, thereby not forcing me to manage exactly how many volumes are required for each pool, each month if I were to set up two devices with two different media types. Using an autochanger is not going to work since one of the devices will be used for all jobs and clients, while the second device will be reserved for one specific client. The one specific client's backups can be rather large, and run for multiple days and would hold up the backups of all the other clients. Is this configuration of setting up two file devices that both use the same directory as their Archive Device safe? Will Bacula be able to do the right thing? Thanks for any input on this. -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
