Re: [Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/17/2013 10:36 AM, fsy wrote: > Hi, > > i want to backup to usb disks every day, so i decided to install vchanger and > use one usb disk for every day. > > my problem is that vchanger/bacula sometimes doesn't recognize my disks. > > My vchanger config is: > > changer_name = vchanger > virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-18 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 02/17/13 10:36, fsy wrote: > Hi, > > i want to backup to usb disks every day, so i decided to install vchanger and > use one usb disk for every day. > > my problem is that vchanger/bacula sometimes doesn't recognize my disks. > > My vchanger config is: > > changer_name = vchanger > virtual_

Re: [Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-18 Thread James Harper
> Hi James, > > i'll try that. > > How do you tell bacula which volumes it should use on the disks? > I forgot to mention that. I only have one volume on each disk. I suppose if you had multiple volumes you would need to set overwrite protection such that Bacula could only use one of them, eg

[Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-18 Thread fsy
Hi James, i'll try that. How do you tell bacula which volumes it should use on the disks? Greets fsy +-- |This was sent by j.ech...@gmx.de via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +

Re: [Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-18 Thread James Harper
> Hi, > > i want to backup to usb disks every day, so i decided to install vchanger and > use one usb disk for every day. > > my problem is that vchanger/bacula sometimes doesn't recognize my disks. > I tried vchanger for this once but couldn't get it to do what I wanted. I had much more succe

Re: [Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-18 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20130217 om 21:18 schreef mikeegg1: > On Feb 17, 2013, at 9:36 AM, fsy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > i want to backup to usb disks every day, so i decided to install vchanger > > and use one usb disk for every day. > > > > my problem is that vchanger/bacula sometimes doesn't recognize my disks.

Re: [Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-17 Thread mikeegg1
I backup to USB disk each day. I have a final job (priority 40, less than everything else) that executes a pre-job-script (whatever). I can share the script with you tomorrow. My fulls are now 2TB+ and run on the first Saturday of each month. I have moved to 4TB USB drives (room to grow). Mike

[Bacula-users] using usb disk for daily off site backups with vchanger

2013-02-17 Thread fsy
Hi, i want to backup to usb disks every day, so i decided to install vchanger and use one usb disk for every day. my problem is that vchanger/bacula sometimes doesn't recognize my disks. My vchanger config is: changer_name = vchanger virtual_drives = 1 slots_per_magazine = 6 magazine_bays = 1