Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-21 Thread Peter Milesson via Bacula-users
On 21.01.2022 15:46, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2022-01-21 15:29, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: thanks for your input. Today, I am using 160GB virtual tape volumes with mhvtl and that seems to be a good trade off. 10GB volumes in the new setting would be a nightmare to manage. That wou

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-21 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2022-01-21 15:29, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: thanks for your input. Today, I am using 160GB virtual tape volumes with mhvtl and that seems to be a good trade off. 10GB volumes in the new setting would be a nightmare to manage. That would be around 3,000 volumes! The volumes will be

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-21 Thread Peter Milesson via Bacula-users
On 21.01.2022 14:56, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2022-01-21 14:03, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: Hi folks, I am building a new backup server that is going to replace the old one. The old backup server uses Bacula ver. 9.2.2 with a virtual tape library (mhvtl). I have found mhvtl a bit

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-21 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2022-01-21 14:03, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: Hi folks, I am building a new backup server that is going to replace the old one. The old backup server uses Bacula ver. 9.2.2 with a virtual tape library (mhvtl). I have found mhvtl a bit tricky, mostly when updating the OS (CentOS 7.8

[Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

2022-01-21 Thread Peter Milesson via Bacula-users
Hi folks, I am building a new backup server that is going to replace the old one. The old backup server uses Bacula ver. 9.2.2 with a virtual tape library (mhvtl). I have found mhvtl a bit tricky, mostly when updating the OS (CentOS 7.8), as it is necessary to recompile the mhvtl kernel driver