Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running.
On the "proper" backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs as the stoarge medium. (We already have these as part of our existing backup system.) These will be plugged into the Bacula server (which is running the director, database and storage daemons). I want to be able to use the HDDs one at a time - i.e. have one HDD out and the others locked in the safe. What I'm not too sure on is how to configure Bacula to live with the scenario, as potentially each HDD could occupy the same device node and mount point. >From what I can see, it could get confused about the absence of certain volumes, as there would be no apparent difference between the drives once they are mounted - apart from their contents, of course. I read in the manual section referring to multiple tape drives about creating a series of symlinks in a directory to point to a number of different volumes - would this be appropriate here? Would Bacula be able to cope with the absence of a drive and prompt for its connection? Or is there a better approach of managing this scenario? I am running Bacula on Debian Sarge, using the stock Debian version of the software. Thanks in advance, Tony Whitmore ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
