Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Trainor
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:24 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> I ran a job, and it was blocked waiting for a volume to be mounted. >> Why do I need to mount a volume?  I had already set 'AutomaticMount = >> yes;' for this Device.  I suppose that only applies to Devices and not >> volumes contained inside

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread John Drescher
> I ran a job, and it was blocked waiting for a volume to be mounted. > Why do I need to mount a volume?  I had already set 'AutomaticMount = > yes;' for this Device.  I suppose that only applies to Devices and not > volumes contained inside of a Device?  I mounted a volume manually but > of course

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Trainor
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > Dan, > > I'll throw in some general explanations of my own.  Perhaps a > different concept of things would help. > > Consider a garage to be a storage pool.  Inside the garage are 100 1 > gallon buckets.  The buckets are your volumes.  You d

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/05/11 14:17, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > Dan, > > I'll throw in some general explanations of my own. Perhaps a > different concept of things would help. > > Consider a garage to be a storage pool. Inside the garage are 100 1 > gallon buckets. The buckets are your volumes. You data is water.

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Dan, I'll throw in some general explanations of my own. Perhaps a different concept of things would help. Consider a garage to be a storage pool. Inside the garage are 100 1 gallon buckets. The buckets are your volumes. You data is water. Outside the garage you have a 5 gallon bucket of water

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Trainor
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Paul Mather wrote: > On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> Why do we use volumes?  It sounds like a silly question, but it's >>> genuine.  Is it so a backup can span several media types?  Tape, file, >>> disk, Pandora's box, what?  Why do I care

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Why do we use volumes? It sounds like a silly question, but it's >> genuine. Is it so a backup can span several media types? Tape, file, >> disk, Pandora's box, what? Why do I care about volumes and how long >> they're retained, how often

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Why do we use volumes? It sounds like a silly question, but it's >genuine. Is it so a backup can span several media types? Tape, file, >disk, Pandora's box, what? Why do I care about volumes and how long >they're retained, how often they're pruned, recycled, or what type >they are? You have t