I am using softlinks for devices with bacula 1.36.3 and they work
perfecly. I keep a storage device for each client (or family of clients)
on a 4.5 Tb system and in / there is a directory with soft links to the
various storage devices, so I can change their physical location without
stopping or reloading bacula.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:12, Janco van der Merwe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula
> will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an
idea on the
> one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last 3
months of data
> but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where the data
is will change
> from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup dir on the /
partition
> and then a script that creates softlinks to the required directories
within the /backup
> dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the
softlinks?
If you are soft linking Volume names, yes, which probably means fixed
Volume names pre-labeled. If you are trying to soft link directories
(i.e. disk "Archive device"), I'm not sure. I use this technique to have
Bacula disk
backup where the total data of all the Volumes is larger than a single
hard disk.
Example:
In directory /files/havana an "ls -l"
total 76652132
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0001 ->
/files1/havana/Diff-0001
-rw-r----- 1 root root 215321044 Aug 27 01:10 Diff-0002
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0003 ->
/files1/havana/Diff-0003
-rw-r----- 1 root root 262084337 Sep 17 01:10 Diff-0004
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0005 ->
/files1/havana/Diff-0005
-rw-r----- 1 root root 139985294 Sep 10 01:06 Diff-0006
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0007 ->
/files1/havana/Diff-0007
-rw-r----- 1 root root 72443800 Oct 8 01:07 Diff-0008
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0009 ->
/files1/havana/Diff-0009
-rw-r----- 1 root root 3556777231 Jul 23 01:11 Diff-0010
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0001 ->
/files1/havana/Full-0001
-rw-r----- 1 root root 9550073756 Aug 6 02:31 Full-0002
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0003 ->
/files1/havana/Full-0003
-rw-r----- 1 root root 9717336948 Sep 3 02:33 Full-0004
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0005 ->
/files1/havana/Full-0005
-rw-r----- 1 root root 28482069327 May 7 01:56 Full-0006
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0007 ->
/files1/havana/Full-0007
-rw-r----- 1 root root 21896443859 Jul 2 01:45 Full-0008
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 20 2004 Inc-0001 ->
/files1/havana/Inc-0001
-rw-r----- 1 root root 234899641 Sep 26 01:06 Inc-0002
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 20 2004 Inc-0003 ->
/files1/havana/Inc-0003
-rw-r----- 1 root root 2988337776 Sep 5 01:06 Inc-0004
-rw-r----- 1 root root 234663813 Sep 19 01:05 Inc-0005
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1064598374 Oct 10 01:06 Inc-0006
Note, /files1/havana is a different hard disk. Bacula only knows about
/files/havana. From SD conf file:
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /files/havana
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
Interesting. You can see the date when I added the second harddisk, and
Bacula has just continued backing up and recycling ever since with no
manual intervention other than me doing 1 or 2 upgrades.
Regards,
Kern
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