> Hi! Hello Anders,
> I was pondering this as a lower-cost alternative to tape and wondering if this > is possible? It all depends on your workload. For several TBs, 70 USD per LTO plus the autoloader (Tandberg on Amazon US for 800 USD) can easily be cheaper than a bunch of disks. > Have a few USB drives that were connected through an USB Multiplexer (not hub) > so that the drives were > rotated every weekday. One USB Drive per day. > > The rotation would be handled completely independent from the backup system in > such a way that changeover > happens when bacups are not running. > > How would Bacula handle this? I assume the SD would not mind, but what about > the > database? Is it written > completely to disk on every backup? There is a very new, exciting feature in the Bacula Enterprise called Storage Group. It provides fail-over and load-balancing to the Bacula Storages. Maybe you could create one Storage for each USB device, and let Bacula handle the distribution automagically. But I didn't test that yet. It's also necessary to verify if this feature will be able for the 13.x community version. > -- > Med vänlig hälsning > > Anders Gustafsson, ingenjör > anders.gustafs...@pedago.fi | Support +358 18 12060 | Direkt +358 9 315 45 > 121 | Mobil +358 40506 7099 Rgds. -- MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) Bacula LATAM CIO mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ] _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
