> > I'm still wondering if this really is the > > simplest way of implementing the file storage? > > > > What would I lose if I simply had only one of the two device resources, > > no autochanger resource at all, and the jobs would refer directly to the > > device resource? I think it should work too...
> What are you trying to achieve? I agree that "virtual autochanger" is a > mind boggle with no obvious practical use, but why are you looking at it > in the first place? One file storage device is exactly how it works, > moreover it's the only way it works natively. I'm not trying to achieve anything special, I'm rather trying to avoid doing anything unnecessarily complicated. I just want to set up (and to fully understand my set-up) a simple but working file storage device for a small business / home office environments, with no more than just a few concurrent jobs. By now, I've used Bacula for a decade with tape drives, but only now I'm about to switch over to disk-based backup. What confused me is that the example conf files supplied with current Bacula releases don't give an example of the very basic disk-based setup, but just show how to setup a virtual disk autochanger. The whitepapers that Kern referred gave me an impression that the virtual autochanger setup is primarily for high-end applications where may be thousands of concurrent jobs, and where it is essential to have a more precise control on how concurrent jobs simultaneously use several volumes. I hope I got this right? So I guess that within my small sandbox I'll be fine with just one file storage device :-) Kern and Dimitri, thank you for the answers! Regards, Timo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
