On 9/17/19 1:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > What are folks using for removable-drive backup storage, how do you have > it configured in Bacula, and how well is it working out for you? I > desperately need a better solution here.
We stick the old and the cheapest desktop SATA drives into a server w/ hot-swap disk slots, and pull them out an put them on the shelf when they're full. There are problems with it, most notably bacula's inability to spool to two devices at once: if you disk fails, you lose the whole thing. We have a post-job rsync to a separate drive, so we only lose the last backup, but amanda-style "rait" would be so much better. The other one we have is a 36-bay chassis with ZFS. We started with 4TB "NAS" drives in it and by now replaced them all with 8TB "archive" ones... And when it starts getting tight we'll go for 12 or 16 or whatever it's gonna be by then. With this one I don't have to muck around with vchanger, labeling barcodes and updating slots and all that. And everything's on-line at all times. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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