On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmmm... I don't think initmag is part of vchanger 1.0.1. Besides,
wife/children only need to swap the harddisks for backups. The rest of the
heavy lifting will be performed by the sysadmin.
>
> 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.
>
> Yes, with spinning disks getting cheaper and higher capacity, what's to
stop a home user from using it as a solution for home backups of their
precious vacation photos and videos ;) My wife and myself are
semi-professional photographers. We shoot photos in RAW format with
DSLRs. Each one of our shot is ~45MB. We used to make photographic
trips. And each time we'll come back with over 250GB worth of shots in RAW
format. We keep all of our shots (yes...even those that are badly taken
:P). Then there is the work flow to process those photos into other
formats (eg JPG and MKV for slideshows). So, a single photographic outing
will easily cost us 300-400GB worth of storage.
This Bacula + vchanger setup is just the primary backup solution I'm
looking into. I have intention to later rsync (with encryption) the backup
to a remote location.
Pann
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