Hi, I'm kind of new to Bacula, and definitely to Vchanger, so please bear with me.
I want to implement vchanger on a set of hard drives, with the idea that I will have a pool of, let's say, 10 drives available for backup, and where I do not have to specify a storage device for every job I define. One of the issue that come up right off the bat is the drive labeling. In the "Removable Disk HowTo" document, they talk about labeling the drives with the same label corresponding to the vchanger that these drives are going to be attached to. Now, I am not using USB drives, but rather fixed drives in a HD enclosure; so they will all be installed in the system (Linux Gentoo). So, how will the system mount these drives, all with the same label, and differentiate between them. Unless the intention of the HowTo document was not to have the USB drives installed at the same time. The other issue is that, if that would work as is, and I have multiple drives attached to the vchanger, these drives will be pooled, and thus Bacula will backup on some volume form this pool, regardless of which drive it belongs to. The question then arises as to what happens if the backup job is larger that the balance of disk space on the chosen drive; will the job span across multiple drives; i.e. it will start on a certain drive, then the "Volume" will "grow" on another drive? I thought that's how it worked with tape backups; bacula just went to the changer and got a new magazine tape and continued the job. I may have this whole thing completely misunderstood, but I thought that that was the intention. Pool together several drives, and tell Bacula to backup to them, without having to specify a drive, and without having to worry if there was room on a specific device, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Elie Azar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
