Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Group with multiple disks

[Kern Sibbald]

Hello, It sounds like you need to learn how Bacula uses the Media Type directive.  By defining different Media Types for different devices, you ensure that Bacula can find the right device.  In general every device that has a different device location (different i-scsi or a different path to the device location) should have a different Media Type.  That way, the Director will know what device to use for Volumes it needs to read. Best regards, Kern On 9/24/19 8:12 AM, Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) wrote: Hi All,   I am a newbie to Bacula.   We are piloting Bacula v 9.4.4 for my project and intend to use the VirtualFull backup scheme.   We have 20 number of  i-scsi disks  (disk1 through disk20) on Bacula SD server. We have defined a storage group StorageGroup consolidating the abovementioned disks defined as 20 Devices, each Device configured to refer to each of the scsi disk. e.g. Device1 à disk1, Device2 à disk2 ..and so on.   Things went fine with the initial full backups of various clients simultaneously. Bacula  picked up the next available device and created volumes under the selected Device’s disk. Then we took incremental backups. Again Bacula wrote the incremental volumes on the selected Device’s disk.   However when we tried to do a VirtualFull job, Bacula again tried to use the next available drive, lets say Device1(disk1) and tried to read the constituent volumes (previous full + incremental ) However the constituent  volumes had been created through a different Device, lets say disk7. So Bacula reported that the candidate volume is not found under the current job’s Device (disk1).   Question is : In case of VirtualFull job;  how to tell Bacula to locate/read the constituent volumes through the Device (disk) where they were originally created.   Thanks in advance,   Yateen Bhagat         _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

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