On 9/5/2014 3:16 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 09/05/2014 01:41 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> On 9/5/2014 1:48 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >>> I've another bacula setup that writes to a single filesystem. It's been >>> running with about zero problems (knock on wood) and zero maintenance >>> for years: auto-labelling works, volume recycling works, the only >>> problems are spinning rust and lsi's ugly raid manglement software. >> The whole point of vchanger is to use multiple filesystems as a single >> autochanger. For a single filesystem I would recommend Bacula's >> built-in disk autochanger capability or else Bacula's standard disk >> storage handling. > Right, that's my point: when you use bacula's standard disk storage > handling you get > - automatic volume labeling, > - automatic volume recycling, > and generally near zero maintenance overhead. > > With vchanger I > - have a job split over different disks, > - need to manually fix the catalog every time I sneeze,
Fix the catalog?? > - get into weird "intervention needed" loops where bacula "mounts" a > volume it's just filled up and complains it couldn't write to some other > volume it shouldn't have tried in the first place. That is related to the 'update slots' not being issued when a change occurred. This problem also occurs if I forget to issue 'update slots' when I change tape cartridges in a tape autochanger, so I don't really consider that a huge disadvantage. > Ergo, if you want to use multiple filesystems, the smart move would be > to "fake" the standard disk storage over multiple filesystems. How? > (As for built-in disk autochanger, Kern's explanation of it never made > much sense to me: maybe it's useful for debugging or something...) Well, true, it is a [mostly] undocumented feature. I have tested it and it appears to work well, but I cannot say I have used it extensively in production. Kern has stated that it is used in production, though I don't know when/where. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users