On Monday 20 March 2006 21:18, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> RAID5 is best with a hot spare volume, otherwise...what's the advantage
> that justifies increased write overhead?
>
> Besides, does the file system you're backing up to require any more
> redundancy from a disk technology standpoint than you might expect out
> of the life expectancy of a single DLT tape?
>
> Consider this, if you present these individual disks as 250? 300? gig
> individual volumes / file system mount points to Bacula, you *can't*
> tell Bacula to put each "file tape" on a different mount point and/or
> sub-directory.

This *can* be accomplished by using symbolic linking.  In an application that 
I maintain, Bacula has one Storage device resource defined, and it uses 
volumes spread over two different filesystems by simply symlinking them.  
This is described briefly in the manual.

>
> I've discussed this in the past and what that would require is the
> concept of a "File Storage Directory Prefix", i.e:
>
> /dev/da0s1a /storage/bacula/Daily0
> /dev/da1s1a /storage/bacula/Daily1
> /dev/da2s1a /storage/bacula/Daily2
>
> ~BAS

-- 
Best regards,

Kern

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