Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
> I haven't gotten this to work yet, that is my goal.  The two options I > have gotten are to turn my jbod into a raid or use "vchanger".  I'm all > for using RAID, but my co-workers don't want to too.. they are worried > about the array getting corrupted and then we lose all our backups, > where a

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/06/2011 12:44 PM, John Drescher wrote: > Yes you made sense. > > How are you getting bacula to use the next drive when the first is > full? Different storage devices? Rotating symbolic links? aufs / > unionfs? > > John > I haven't gotten this to work yet, that is my goal. The two options

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
>> "The same pool is no problem at all.  What is the problem is bacula >> does not normally move a job from one device to a second and it will >> never continue a job from one media type to a different. The first >> problem can possibly be overcome with what is called as a virtual >> autochanger" >

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/06/2011 11:54 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: >I just found this old archived messages.. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29377.html > > The end of this email says: > > "The same pool is no problem at all. What is the problem is bacula > does not normally mov

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
>  still recommend using bacula vchanger in this situation. > Some how the I in that sentence disappeared while I was typing.. -- John M. Drescher -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartph

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: >  I just found this old archived messages.. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29377.html > > The end of this email says: > > "The same pool is no problem at all.  What is the problem is bacula > does not normal

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
I just found this old archived messages.. http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29377.html The end of this email says: "The same pool is no problem at all. What is the problem is bacula does not normally move a job from one device to a second and it will never cont

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/06/2011 11:01 AM, hymie! wrote: > Now, each of my disks is 2TB. If you've got a 16-bay JBOD and, say, > 12 100GB disks, then you might be even better off setting up a striped > logical volume at the OS level, and tell Bacula that it's a single disk. > My last thread on this list degenerate

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
I wonder if it's because I have a different "media type" for each of my drives in the sd.conf file? I thought the media type option needed to be a different name. Device { Name = disk1 Media Type = File1 Archive Device = /export/disk1 LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread hymie!
I am by no means an expert, but I can hopefully give you my experience. A backup that I inherited was set up with 2 disks, a storage for each disk, and a pool for each storage. Apparantly, bacula can sometimes get confused when two storages use the same media. Because more than once, my backups

[Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
I'm still on my quest to get bacula to write data to more than one disk drive.. I have a 16-bay JBOD unit. I was pointed to "vchanger" but as bacula is a bit complicated already, I don't want to add a 3rd party program into the mix as well (unless I have to). I also have to believe that bac