On 10/12/07, Ivan Adzhubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Got my new AIT5 tape drive delivered today, did a firmware upgrade of the > autochanger and installed it alongside with the old AIT3 one. All btape tests > on the new drive completed with flying colors. Now I need advice on how to > configure Bacula for two drives which use different (and incompatible) types > of media in the same autochanger. Documentation is not very clear about it > and apparently no one actually tested such setup but it seems to be possible. > > Documentation states: "The MediaType specified in the Director's Storage > resource, must correspond to the Media Type specified in the Device > resource of the Storage daemon configuration file". But what if I have two > Devices configured in SD file with different MediaTypes? Do I need a second > Storage resource in DIR config file pointing to the same Autochanger resource > in SD config, but with the different MediaType? Will it work this way? > Although I do not have the same situation (incompatible drives) but I do have a two drive changer and for 6 months I used the drives directly instead of specifying the autochanger device in my jobs. So this is what I would do:
Specify the Media Type independently for each device and then add Storage resources for both devices (in addition to the autochanger) to the bacula-dir.conf file. Then have your backups go to the individual drives and not the changer. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
