On Wednesday 01 June 2005 21:37, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Craig Dupree wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm a sort of returning bacula user. In the past I've used bacula with > > a single drive only, which wasn't much of a problem since the tape drive > > was a LTO2 and could easily fit my backup needs. Now I have a 2 drive > > system (just plain drives, no autoloader or anything) and much more data > > that can fit on a tape - currently I'm backing up ~150 Gb and getting > > about 65 Gb on a tape. I was wondering if it's possible to have bacula > > use both tape drives to complete a backup. > > If you read the developers list... iirc, this is something that will > happen in the future, eventually. I think that the evolving multi-drive > multi-autochanger and multi-everything :-) possibilities will support > that, but to make sure you should read the developers list archives.
I specifically need testers for two drive autochangers and multiple tape drives on version 1.37.x. I consider the code stable enough to use it in production for myself, but the handling of multiple drives is probably going to take a while and a lot of testing to get straight. Any volunteers should switch to using the bacula-devel list. > > > This would let me get 2 > > tapes into the backup at which point it would hang until I could put in > > the the 3rd in final tape, and possibly a 4th if needed. From looking > > at the docs, I don't see that it's possible to specify to tape devices > > in the Job resource, or am I reading the docs wrong? Is it possible to > > do a "fake" autochanger setup to mimic this behavior? > > Again, if I recall correctly there was one such setup described on the > list... ok, found it: > Mario Wolff, 28.01.2005, Subject: [Bacula-users] Using multiple > tapedrives as autochanger! There was at least one following post. > > Hope this helps, > > Arno > > > TIA, > > > > Craig > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > > Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! > > Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own > > Applications - visit > > http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
