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 ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users