Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-28 Thread Attila Fülöp
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 20:31, Attila Fülöp wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: For example, with a trivial amount of work, I could modify Bacula to handle an autochanger with several Media Types, but each drive would have only one Media Type that it would read/write. This w

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-27 Thread David Boyes
> > Hmm. I don't think that would pass our auditors. If there's a > > significant chance that the copies are not identical (and it sounds > > like this approach pretty much guarantees that the copies > will not be > > identical), I don't think it would be sufficient or useful for this > > purp

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 20:31, Attila Fülöp wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > For example, with a trivial amount of work, I could modify Bacula to > > handle an autochanger with several Media Types, but each drive would have > > only one Media Type that it would read/write. > > This would be gr

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-26 Thread Attila Fülöp
Kern Sibbald wrote: For example, with a trivial amount of work, I could modify Bacula to handle an autochanger with several Media Types, but each drive would have only one Media Type that it would read/write. This would be great anyhow, since it would allow me to connect an additional (DDS) d

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 19:01, David Boyes wrote: > > > Hmm. I don't think that would pass our auditors. If there's a > > > significant chance that the copies are not identical (and it sounds > > > like this approach pretty much guarantees that the copies > > > > will not be > > > > > identica

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 17:59, David Boyes wrote: > > > Hmm. Does the second job transfer the data from the FD > > > > again? If so, > > > > > then that doesn't (IMHO) quite do what I want to do here. I really > > > want to transfer the data only once (the only guarantee we have of > > > getti

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-07 Thread David Boyes
I scoped the problem as two major projects: > > > > 1) implementation of "copy pools" -- where files written to a pool > > were automatically also written to up to 3 additional pools > using the > > same volume selection criteria as exist now (essentially > getting the > > SD to act as a FD

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-07 Thread David Boyes
> > Hmm. Does the second job transfer the data from the FD > again? If so, > > then that doesn't (IMHO) quite do what I want to do here. I really > > want to transfer the data only once (the only guarantee we have of > > getting the same data on all the copies) and create the > replicas on t

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 15:15, David Boyes wrote: > I scoped the problem as two major projects: > > > 1) implementation of "copy pools" -- where files written to a pool > > > were automatically also written to up to 3 additional pools > > > > using the > > > > > same volume selection criteria a

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-04 Thread David Boyes
I scoped the problem as two major projects: 1) implementation of "copy pools" -- where files written to a pool were automatically also written to up to 3 additional pools using the same volume selection criteria as exist now (essentially getting the SD to act as a FD to more than one FDs to ensu

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello David, On Monday 03 October 2005 21:20, David Boyes wrote: > I scoped the problem as two major projects: > > 1) implementation of "copy pools" -- where files written to a pool were > automatically also written to up to 3 additional pools using the same > volume selection criteria as exist no

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 03.10.2005 20:06, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Did you ever get an answer to this? If not it is a real pity. In any case, beginning in November, I will be making a new Wish List, and this item will probably be on in, if not, please submit it. Then maybe we can make some progress tow

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Did you ever get an answer to this? If not it is a real pity. In any case, beginning in November, I will be making a new Wish List, and this item will probably be on in, if not, please submit it. Then maybe we can make some progress toward what you want ... On Thursday 01 September 2

[Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-09-05 Thread David Boyes
> We want to backup all our clients to disk and then mirror > these backups to tape. We want the ability to do quick > restores from the disk (last > 2-4 weeks depending on backup size) but also create a tape > archive spanning several months if we need anything that is > not on the disk-stora