Re: [Bacula-users] Single tape drive visible to multiple hosts

2007-02-07 Thread John Drescher
> Bacula sends the data directly from the filedaemon on each client to > the storage daemon with out going through the director (main bacula > server). > I wanted to clarify one thing. The storage daemon is run on the machine that holds the tape drive. As a result of this design I believe bacula do

Re: [Bacula-users] Single tape drive visible to multiple hosts

2007-02-07 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, John Drescher wrote: > Bacula sends the data directly from the filedaemon on each client to > the storage daemon with out going through the director (main bacula > server). If network speed is an issue, one can always configure IP-over-san... ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Single tape drive visible to multiple hosts

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Davis
Alan, I don't believe that it's possible with the architecture that Bacula uses. This would require that multiple nodes would be running the Storage daemon (SD) but they would all be trying to control the same tape device. There is no mechanism to coordinate the SD's and they would all be trying

Re: [Bacula-users] Single tape drive visible to multiple hosts

2007-02-06 Thread John Drescher
On 2/6/07, Alan O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have a situation where we have a single tape library, (IBM 3581 > Ultrium Tape Loader), which is connected via a fibre SAN to a mix of > Intel Blade's, (running RH Linux or Win 2K), and a couple of P570 > servers running AIX. I am t