---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Removable Disk Vchanger To: WebDawg <webd...@hackspherelabs.com>
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:26 PM, WebDawg <webd...@hackspherelabs.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I saw that Josh Fisher was on this list so I am email it about this guide: > http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=removable_disk > > > I am new to Bacula and I would like to use some hard drives I have instead > of tapes. I am having trouble understanding a magazine and its slots and > the relationship to using hard disks. > > > Why would this be a common practice?: > > magslots=20 > maxdrive=1 > > Why would I want more then one slot per hard drive? So you can recycle a slot which is much smaller than a hard drive. Remember that recycling is all or none. So if you make the volume the entire size of a hard drive to recycle you have to recycle every job stored on the hard drive. At home I use a virtual autochanger with 40 5GB slots and 2 magazines with each magazine being on a different hard disk (one external one internal). At work I use a tape autochanger. But at work I have 180 tapes and 50TB+ to store in my backups.. John -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
