Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 16 December 2005 23:07, Josh Fisher wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:06, Dan Langille wrote: > >>On 13 Dec 2005 at 16:51, Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>>Anyway, concerning Bacula working with these USB removable filesystems. > >>>The big problem is that Bacula does

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:06, Dan Langille wrote: On 13 Dec 2005 at 16:51, Kern Sibbald wrote: Anyway, concerning Bacula working with these USB removable filesystems. The big problem is that Bacula doesn't understand what a removable filesys

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-14 Thread Richard (MQ)
Hi Ferdinando > I have done something silmilar with tape > magazines. I use normal backups on disks, with > Full on sunday and Incr on weekdays. > > On saturday I schedule a Full copy on > tapes (2 drives on a 19 slots changer). We keep > 3 magazines wich are rotated, > each containing some volum

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:14, Greg Cope, e-DBA Team wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:51 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've seen requests like yours before, and never really answered them > > because I didn't really know what to do with them. However, for some > > reason, th

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-14 Thread Greg Cope
Thanks for that the following is what I think I am after in bconsole update Volume=$VOL VolStatus=$STS I must have missed this in the docs. Greg On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:15 +0100, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: > > I have done something silmilar with tape magazines. I use normal > backups on di

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-14 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
I have done something silmilar with tape magazines. I use normal backups on disks, with Full on sunday and Incr on weekdays. On saturday I schedule a Full copy on tapes (2 drives on a 19 slots changer). We keep 3 magazines wich are rotated, each containing some volumes of the 4 pools onto which w

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-14 Thread bacula
Hi Kern, (quoting may be a bit confused; sorry) >> It seems to me that with a bit of tweaking, not only could Bacula be made to >> know what is and what is not online, but it could also automatically mount >> the Volume if needed. All I need to do is steal (well, adapt is a better >> word)

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-14 Thread Greg Cope, e-DBA Team
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:51 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I've seen requests like yours before, and never really answered them because > I > didn't really know what to do with them. However, for some reason, this > email peaked my interest, and I dug out an old 64MB USB device that I

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:06, Dan Langille wrote: > On 13 Dec 2005 at 16:51, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Anyway, concerning Bacula working with these USB removable filesystems. > > The big problem is that Bacula doesn't understand what a removable > > filesystem is (except for DVDs) and hence expe

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Dec 2005 at 16:51, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Anyway, concerning Bacula working with these USB removable filesystems. The > big problem is that Bacula doesn't understand what a removable filesystem is > (except for DVDs) and hence expects *all* your Volumes to be online all the > time. This m

RE: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-13 Thread Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external
Hi, to be honest, I'm quite confused by this topic myself :) Still, I'd like to put some of my NetWorkerized logic out for discussion, I don't know if this is implementable, though. Maybe You've been thinking this through already and it's not achieving what is needed, I'm not sure. But it appea

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I've seen requests like yours before, and never really answered them because I didn't really know what to do with them. However, for some reason, this email peaked my interest, and I dug out an old 64MB USB device that I received from Dell when I bought a computer some time ago. I plug

Re: [Bacula-users] Cycling a USB drive - confused...

2005-12-13 Thread Greg Cope, e-DBA Team
Sorry I have changed that to "yes" - now it wants me to mount the old volume label Greg On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:28 +, Graham David Purcocks M.A.(Oxon.) wrote: > RemovableMedia = no ? > > > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:18, Greg Cope wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > A little confused as to how I migh