Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-08-06 Thread Rowdy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henning Holtschneider wrote: > Rowdy wrote: > >> I do similar to what Ger indicated (I have 2 hard drives alternating in >> an external USB enclosure connected to a box running Bacula under >> FreeBSD), but set the status to Used rather than Full. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-08-06 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Rowdy wrote: > I do similar to what Ger indicated (I have 2 hard drives alternating in > an external USB enclosure connected to a box running Bacula under > FreeBSD), but set the status to Used rather than Full. That sounds good. The volume status update can be automated as a Run Before Job scri

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-07-13 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi Ryan, > Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rowdy wrote: > > > An automated solution for you might be to write a cron job to run an > SQL > > update command to set the media status to Used at the end of each > week's > > cycle, and maybe even fire off a reminder email to whoever

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-07-13 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rowdy wrote: > An automated solution for you might be to write a cron job to run an SQL > update command to set the media status to Used at the end of each week's > cycle, and maybe even fire off a reminder email to whoever is supposed > to swap USB d

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-07-13 Thread James Harper
Not directly related to your question, but if you want to forego the mucking around with mounting and unmounting, consider using autofs. I use the following configuration under Amanda (and have tested Bacula under the same) at a client who uses 4 USB hdd's: /etc/auto.master: /vol/etc/auto.vol

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-07-13 Thread Rowdy
Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > A client of mine would like to backup their single Debian server and > they have purchased two external 100Gb USB2 HDDs for this purpose. > I'm looking at using Bacula to do this, but can't work out a graceful > way of configuring Bacula to do this. (Bacula versio

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to alternate USB HDDs

2006-07-12 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi Greg, I mount all external HDD's at /mnt/HDD and use the console to mark the offsite volume as "Full". Perhaps not idiot-proof, but it is simple & effective. Ger. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support we