On 2016-05-05 23:40, Pann Tolk wrote: > With that from Josh, I'm going to use udev instead for plug-n-play. > That way, even less technically inclined people (eg wife and children) > can help to swap the set of disks (magazines) from the 2-slot hotplug > dock with another set of disks for Bacula to use.
Well, if bacula properly supported disks as backup media, that may have been true. In reality they'll need to run "vchanger initmag" and "label barcodes/update slots" every time, so the amount of plug'n'playing you can achieve is somewhat limited by that. The advantage of permanently mounted drives is bacula will run pretty much unattended if your storage as a single partition. We have one server where I am gradually replacing 4TB drives with 8TB 'archive' drives -- ZFS filesystem lets you do that with no downtime. It also lets you configure your disks into software raid sets: very handy when using commodity SATA drives that tend to randomly die and take away all your backups. Dimitri ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
