Hi, We're experimenting with bacula as possible replacement for our netvault setup. On the netvault server, we have multiple partitions that we can use for file-based "tapes". (This allows us to easily add arrays / space in case we need more; something a striped setup would not allow for instance.)
I can't seem to find out how we can use multiple storage devices with bacula. The examples in the manual seem to assume that we want to have a different storage device or pool for different clients, but basically I just want to use the same pool for all clients, and use whatever storage is available in a certain pool. (Using a next disk if the previous if filled.) I defined multiple devices in my bacula-sd.conf, like so: Device { Name = dev1 Media Type = File1 Archive Device = /data/dev1 LabelMedia = yes Random Access = Yes AutomaticMount = yes RemovableMedia = no AlwaysOpen = no } Device { Name = dev2 Media Type = File2 Archive Device = /data/dev2 LabelMedia = yes Random Access = Yes AutomaticMount = yes RemovableMedia = no AlwaysOpen = no } And configured them in bacula-dir.conf: Storage { Name = dev1 Address = bacula.wind.surfnet.nl SDPort = 9103 Password = ... Device = dev1 Media Type = File1 Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 } Storage { Name = dev2 Address = bacula.wind.surfnet.nl SDPort = 9103 Password = ... Device = dev2 Media Type = File2 Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 } I tried to put these together in a pool, something that apparently doesn't work ;-) Pool { Name = Default Pool Type = Backup Label Format = "Vol" AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 30d #Recycle Oldest Volume = yes #Purge Oldest Volume = yes Storage = dev1,dev2 Maximum Volume Bytes = 10GB #Maximum Volumes = 4 } Still experimenting with toggles there. (Recycle/Purge Oldest Volume seems interesting in combination with a limited volume size, just to allow whatever space there is for backups: just the more there is to backup, the less history we get. I might want to have a different Pool for Full vs. Incrementals though.) But it doesn't use dev2 as soon as dev1 is filled for instance (or has 4 volumes, but I guess that might just count for all of the devices.) Any suggestions on how to use multiple disk-devices for the same pool? Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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