On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 09:50 -1000, WebDawg wrote: > I need to backup to multiple drives and use them in one slot like > tapes. > > > That is what you mean right?
Yes, I believe so. I use disk drives for backups at home. One of them is a 4TB drive that is always online, and is therefore available for unattended backups. This drive doesn't need vchanger, I just create files on the drive that are bacula volumes. They get recycled automatically as needed. I also have a single-drive capacity mounter that allows inserting a drive which is then recognized and available. I've got 6 drives that get used in this. Obviously, not all the volumes on those drives are online all the time (in fact none of them are), and this is where vchanger comes in. Each drive is a "magazine" in a single mag capacity vchanger drive. Insert a drive, run "update slots", and the volumes from that drive are available. These drives are used as the target of copy jobs, and stored offline in a fireproof safe. Better would be completely off site of course, but that's overkill just for my home systems. The volumes on the 4TB drive end up getting recycled more often than I can do full backups, so I usually will need one or more of the vchanger drives when doing restores, so it's not practical to keep them offsite. If I were at work with more resources, then of course I would use a higher capacity first tier backup storage device, and keep the second tier backup storage at an offsite location when not in active use. --Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
