Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> > individual volumes / file system mount points to Bacula, you *can't* > > tell Bacula to put each "file tape" on a different mount point and/or > > sub-directory. > > This *can* be accomplished by using symbolic linking. In an application that Ahh good point. Moreover, with RAID5, unless yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 20 March 2006 21:18, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > RAID5 is best with a hot spare volume, otherwise...what's the advantage > that justifies increased write overhead? > > Besides, does the file system you're backing up to require any more > redundancy from a disk technology standpoint than yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
RAID5 is best with a hot spare volume, otherwise...what's the advantage that justifies increased write overhead? Besides, does the file system you're backing up to require any more redundancy from a disk technology standpoint than you might expect out of the life expectancy of a single DLT tape?

[Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-15 Thread David Thurston
Arno, Thanks for the reply. cvs: bacula/bacula/scripts/disk-changer.in Is this what I should be looking at? I'll be setting up a 4-disk hot swappable external SATA enclosure with 1+ Tb of storage to backup all our graphics files. I'm not sure if I should set it up RAID 5 and treat it as one