Bruno Friedmann wrote: > Josh Fisher wrote: > >> Some time ago I wrote a shell script based on the disk-changer script >> and a howto describing my experiences using USB hard drives as >> "magazines" for a virtual autochanger on Linux. Someone (Brian >> DeRocher?) put it up on the Bacula wiki last year at >> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=removable_disk. Since then, I ran >> into some limitations. The lack of virtual drive state info could cause >> problems when magazine disks were swapped while a virtual drive was >> "loaded". Also, it provides no way to define a single autochanger that >> can make use of simultaneously attached disk drives, as for example, a >> SATA hot-swap bay. As a result, I decided to write a C/C++ program to >> replace the script. >> >> The GPLv2 source is available at >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ or by anonymous svn at >> https://vchanger.svn.sourceforge.net. There is also a 32-bit Win32 >> installer. The Win32 version uses juntion points and seems to work on >> XP, at least from the command line. >> >> Only one person besides me has used it thus far, so use at your own >> risk. However, I have been using it for a few months with Bacula 2.4.2 >> through 2.4.4 running on a Centos 5.2 xen PV domU. (I run Bacula SD and >> DIR in a dedicated VM on a Linux HA cluster, though it doesn't yet >> fail-over completely automatically.) I have also tried it on Fedora 8, >> 9, and 10. The latest version has been in use on the Centos domU for >> about a week. >> >> A Howto in HTML is included with the source, describing how to setup a >> multi-drive multi-magazine autochanger for Bacula and get automounting >> of the magazine drives working using udev and autofs. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Josh Fisher >> >> > Thanks John for that news. > > I will give it a try in the next two weeks (opensuse 11.1/11.0) > It just arrived at the good time to my new externals month backup :-) > > It is easy to include the detection off the drive with crypto_luks fs as > all data leaving the office need to be encrypted. >
It only uses fopen(), symlink(), etc. from stdio.h and unistd.h. Shouldn't matter what fs is used. > If this could also work, it would be a nice extension to bacula capabilities. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
