Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
You are right to some extent. And I very much like your idea of using the file "bkdisk", that is pure genius. I'll go ahead and implement that in my backup system! Incidentally, you don't actually need a file. As long as you know the label of the disk, you could also look for the label using fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-29 Thread John Drescher
>> Bacula *can* back up to hard disks, but it is a bit kludgy. For hard >> disk backups, Bacula uses one file per volume, and your USB drive is >> treated like a tape drive. Now you and I know that you can't take a >> single file out of a hard disk the way you can remove a tape from a tape >> drive

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-29 Thread Bernd Plagge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, this is not quite correct. In bacula-dir.conf you can define: Pool { Name = Default Pool Type = Backup Label Format = "ABC-" Maximum Volumes = 1 Maximum Volume Bytes = 1GB Use Volume Once = yes Recycle = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-29 Thread Kevin Keane
c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de wrote: > > John Drescher wrote on 28.04.2009 17:01:11: > > > > Isn't the only way to backup to disks by emulating tape drives? I'm > > > specifically > > > talking about > > > > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=47704&group_id=50727 > > > As I under

[Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-29 Thread C . Keschnat
John Drescher wrote on 28.04.2009 17:01:11: > > Isn't the only way to backup to disks by emulating tape drives? I'm > > specifically > > talking about > > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=47704&group_id=50727 > > As I understand it, bacula itself doesn't support drives other t