Here: http://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/message/17071747/ Btw: reading again nowadays I don't know why I did parts of this stuff. lol
======================================================================= Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified Administrator II 15 a 26 de junho: Treinamento Telepresencial Bacula: http://www.bacula.com.br/?p=2174 61 8268-4220 Site: www.bacula.com.br | Facebook: heitor.faria ======================================================================== ----- Mensagem original ----- > De: "Heitor Faria" <hei...@bacula.com.br> > Para: "Jogi Hofmüller" <j...@mur.at> > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 5 de junho de 2015 10:02:58 > Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Autochanger > Hello Jogi, > > Perhaps you can try to use different Media Types for each device, like it is > being discussed lately on this list and also recommended by the same > whitepaper. > Once I managed to deploy a solution like yours, but with Shell Script. I run > my > backups all at a single tape a time, and had a script that grep(ed) status > storage output every 180s looking for blocked devices waiting for media; a > single bacula-sd tape where the Archive Device was a symlink that was changed > between nst0 and nst1 by the prior script. I've posted at this list (I think > 2008) and it worked like a charm. > > Regards, > ======================================================================= > Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified > Administrator II > 15 a 26 de junho: Treinamento Telepresencial Bacula: > http://www.bacula.com.br/?p=2174 > 61 8268-4220 > Site: www.bacula.com.br | Facebook: heitor.faria > ======================================================================== > > ----- Mensagem original ----- >> De: "Jogi Hofmüller" <j...@mur.at> >> Para: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 5 de junho de 2015 7:17:13 >> Assunto: [Bacula-users] Virtual Autochanger > >> Dear all, >> >> We recently bought two identical HP Ultrium 448i tape drives. We want >> to use them with Bacula and found the white paper "Best Practices for >> Disk Backup" [1] that describes how to configure a virtual autochanger. >> We applied the necessary changes in order to model our two drives >> combined in one virtual autochanger and tried it with a backup job that >> needs more than one tape. >> >> Bacula used the first tape as expected but when in came to use the >> second tape it requested the second tape to be mounted in the first >> drive although the tape was correctly mounted in the second drive. >> >> Now I would like to ask the experts if it is possible to make a setup >> like I described work and if so, what we did wrong so far. We are >> currently using bacula 5.2.6 from Debian stable (8.0 aka jessie). So >> far we have been using bacula with one drive for the past 10 years or so >> and did not have any problems. >> >> Here are the relevant portions of our configs: >> >> <bacula-dir.conf> >> >> Storage { >> Name = TapeChanger >> Address = 127.0.0.1 >> Password = "03292ab58a34fc3895a70a0d6581581c6105a5fd" >> Device = Virtual >> Media Type = Ultrium2 >> Autochanger = yes >> } >> >> JobDefs { >> Name = "DefaultJob" >> Type = Backup >> Client = hamster-file >> FileSet = HomeBackupFileSet >> Messages = Standard >> Storage = TapeChanger >> Priority = 10 >> } >> >> Job { >> Name = "BackupFiles" >> JobDefs = DefaultJob >> Schedule = DailySchedule >> Pool = WeeklyPool >> Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/BackupFiles.bsr" >> } >> >> </bacula-dir.conf> >> >> <bacula-sd.conf> >> >> Autochanger { >> Name = Virtual >> Changer Device = /dev/null >> Changer Command = "" >> Device = virtual-0, virtual-1 >> } >> >> Device { >> Name = virtual-0 >> Media Type = Ultrium2 >> Archive Device = /dev/nst0 >> Device Type = Tape >> AutomaticMount = yes >> AlwaysOpen = yes >> RemovableMedia = yes >> Autochanger = yes >> Drive Index = 0 >> Volume Poll Interval = 15 >> Autoselect = yes >> } >> >> Device { >> Name = virtual-1 >> Media Type = Ultrium2 >> Archive Device = /dev/nst1 >> Device Type = Tape >> AutomaticMount = yes >> AlwaysOpen = yes >> RemovableMedia = yes >> Autochanger = yes >> Drive Index = 1 >> Volume Poll Interval = 15 >> Autoselect = yes >> } >> >> </bacula-sd.conf> >> >> >> Thanks for any input on this matter! >> >> [1] http://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> J.Hofmüller >> >> ich zitiere wie Espenlaub. >> >> https://twitter.com/TheGurkenkaiser/status/463444397678690304 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
