Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Trainor
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:24 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> I ran a job, and it was blocked waiting for a volume to be mounted. >> Why do I need to mount a volume?  I had already set 'AutomaticMount = >> yes;' for this Device.  I suppose that only applies to Devices and not >> volumes contained inside

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread John Drescher
> I ran a job, and it was blocked waiting for a volume to be mounted. > Why do I need to mount a volume?  I had already set 'AutomaticMount = > yes;' for this Device.  I suppose that only applies to Devices and not > volumes contained inside of a Device?  I mounted a volume manually but > of course

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Trainor
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > Dan, > > I'll throw in some general explanations of my own.  Perhaps a > different concept of things would help. > > Consider a garage to be a storage pool.  Inside the garage are 100 1 > gallon buckets.  The buckets are your volumes.  You d

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/05/11 14:17, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > Dan, > > I'll throw in some general explanations of my own. Perhaps a > different concept of things would help. > > Consider a garage to be a storage pool. Inside the garage are 100 1 > gallon buckets. The buckets are your volumes. You data is water.

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Dan, I'll throw in some general explanations of my own. Perhaps a different concept of things would help. Consider a garage to be a storage pool. Inside the garage are 100 1 gallon buckets. The buckets are your volumes. You data is water. Outside the garage you have a 5 gallon bucket of water

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Trainor
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Paul Mather wrote: > On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> Why do we use volumes?  It sounds like a silly question, but it's >>> genuine.  Is it so a backup can span several media types?  Tape, file, >>> disk, Pandora's box, what?  Why do I care

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Why do we use volumes? It sounds like a silly question, but it's >> genuine. Is it so a backup can span several media types? Tape, file, >> disk, Pandora's box, what? Why do I care about volumes and how long >> they're retained, how often

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Why do we use volumes? It sounds like a silly question, but it's >genuine. Is it so a backup can span several media types? Tape, file, >disk, Pandora's box, what? Why do I care about volumes and how long >they're retained, how often they're pruned, recycled, or what type >they are? You have t

[Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-04 Thread Dan Trainor
Hi - I've spent the better part of a week here going through Bacula documentation, going through the quick start, and acquainting myself more with Bacula. I've known of Bacula for years now. I've tinkered with it in the past, so for this latest project I had a considerable head start than what I