Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/19/2014 01:53 PM, Hendrik Visage wrote: ... > Looking at the Bacula architecture, I was hoping for a bit more > intelligence on the Director side, but that doesn't seem to be the > case then. IME bacula works like a charm as long as your storage is a single filesystem. So depending on how mu

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Hendrik Visage
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 09/19/2014 11:35 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > >> If you have to turn them on manually, you might as well do one extra >> manual step and mount the filesystem. You could probably squeeze >> something out of round-robin dns if you really wan

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/19/2014 12:47 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 9/19/2014 12:35 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >> On 09/19/2014 11:10 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >>> On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: The servers are big and oldish and they have enough disk space for my current needs and thus not sens

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/19/2014 12:35 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 09/19/2014 11:10 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: >>> The servers are big and oldish and they have enough disk space for my >>> current needs and thus not sensible to buy extra hardware yet, but to >>> have the

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/19/2014 11:35 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > If you have to turn them on manually, you might as well do one extra > manual step and mount the filesystem. You could probably squeeze > something out of round-robin dns if you really want to automate the > mounting bit... PS the really dumb trick

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/19/2014 11:10 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: >> The servers are big and oldish and they have enough disk space for my >> current needs and thus not sensible to buy extra hardware yet, but to >> have them all run 7x24x366 is a waste of electricity (an

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: >> On 9/19/2014 9:15 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: >>> Goodday, >>> >>>I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to >>> separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typicall

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Hendrik Visage
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > On 9/19/2014 9:15 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: >> Goodday, >> >> I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to >> separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one >> of them will be connected at a time. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 9/19/2014 9:15 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: > Goodday, > > I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to > separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one > of them will be connected at a time. How do you intend to restore stuff? Dimitri -

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Heitor Faria
Hendrik, I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to > separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one > of them will be connected at a time. > What about configuring the multiple storages and just specify them accordingly in the schedule? Run=Differential

[Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Hendrik Visage
Goodday, I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one of them will be connected at a time. Is that possible/feasible with Bacula? any special configurations settings I need to know about? Thank you HEndrik