Ana, You are right. Now I understand this workaround.
Regards, ======================================================================= Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified Administrator II 15 a 26 de junho: Treinamento Telepresencial Bacula: http://www.bacula.com.br/?p=2174 61 8268-4220 Site: www.bacula.com.br | Facebook: heitor.faria ======================================================================== > De: "Ana Emília M. Arruda" <emiliaarr...@gmail.com> > Para: "Josh Fisher" <jfis...@pvct.com> > Cc: "Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 3 de junho de 2015 15:19:23 > Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to > Thank you Josh. > I read in the "Best Practices for Disk Based Backup" white paper this > recommendation (different media types for different mount points). Lots of > people were reporting that this was working fine. So I had been testing the > backup with this configuration, not the restores. Now I see that in the case > of > a restore, this will only work for volumes that are in the first device (mount > point). > Best regards, > Ana > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Josh Fisher < jfis...@pvct.com > wrote: >> On 6/2/2015 1:42 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: >>>> I particularly do not like the idea of having separate volumes of the same >>>> media >>>> type into two different mount points, but I know people that are >>>> configuring >>>> this way. So I decided to do some tests and see what really was happening. >>>> No >>>> issues. Instead I prefer the LVM solution. >>> The point is to make sure severall disks are being write at the same time >>> (load >>> balance) and more resiliency since a dead LVM is a terrible situation. >>> But I kind of agree with you: I don't know why to use different Media Types >>> for >>> compatible media. >> Because, using the previous example config, volumes in directory >> /sdb1/bacula/backup cannot be loaded into vDrive1 and volumes in directory >> /bacula/backup cannot be loaded into vDrive2. Bacula uses the MediaType to >> decide which volumes can be loaded into which Devices. A backup job will run >> without error, writing to either one directory or the other. But unless >> tvDrive1 and vDrive2 have different Media Types, a subsequent restore job >> will >> assume it can load any of those volumes into whichever Device it happens to >> get >> assigned to read from. >>> Regards, >>> ======================================================================= >>> Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified >>> Administrator II >>> 15 a 26 de junho: Treinamento Telepresencial Bacula: >>> http://www.bacula.com.br/?p=2174 >>> 61 8268-4220 >>> Site: www.bacula.com.br | Facebook: heitor.faria | Gtalk: >>> heitorfa...@gmail.com >>> ======================================================================== >>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Bryn Hughes < li...@nashira.ca > wrote: >>>>> Do you have some specific reason to need to have these two volumes >>>>> separate? >>>>> You might be best off using LVM to create a single logical drive. That >>>>> would certainly be a more flexible solution long term. >>>>> Bryn >>>>> On 2015-05-20 09:32 AM, SPQR wrote: >>>>> > I would like to set up bacula - well, my first steps have been >>>>> > successful. >>>>>> All my backups are written to /bacula/backup. But / has only 900GB. So I >>>>>> want >>>>>> bacula to write to /sdb1/bacula/backup, too. /sdb1 has another 950GB of >>>>>> space. >>>>> > The sum of available backup-space should be 1850GB HDD: >>>>> > Well, I got the following config of /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf: >>>>> >> Storage { # definition of myself >>>>> >> Name = backup-sd >>>>> >> SDPort = 9103 # Director's port >>>>> >> WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula" >>>>> >> Pid Directory = "/var/run/bacula" >>>>> >> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 >>>>> >> SDAddress = backup.example.com >>>>> >> } >>>>> >> Director { >>>>> >> Name = backup-dir >>>>> >> Password = "doyoureallywanttoknow" >>>>> >> } >>>>> >> Device { >>>>> >> Name = FileStorage >>>>> >> Media Type = File >>>>> >> Archive Device = /bacula/backup >>>>> >> LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media >>>>> >> Random Access = Yes; >>>>> >> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it >>>>> >> RemovableMedia = no; >>>>> >> AlwaysOpen = no; >>>>> >> } >>>>>> Okay - now I would like to add another device. I guess I could just add >>>>>> a second >>>>> > entry like this: >>>>> >> Device { >>>>> >> Name = FileStorage >>>>> >> Media Type = File >>>>> >> Archive Device = /sdb1/bacula/backup >>>>> >> LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media >>>>> >> Random Access = Yes; >>>>> >> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it >>>>> >> RemovableMedia = no; >>>>> >> AlwaysOpen = no; >>>>> >> } >>>>> > ? >>>>>> Do I have to change something else so that bacula is able to write more >>>>>> than >>>>> > 900GB - if the first 900GB are "full" it should switch to the second >>>>> > hdd. >>>>> > Thank you very much :-) >>>>> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> > |This was sent by r...@ehrenwert.it via Backup Central. >>>>> > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com . >>>>> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>> > Bacula-users mailing list >>>>> > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Bacula-users mailing list >>>>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bacula-users mailing list >>>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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