Hi,
On 1/24/2006 9:48 PM, Reggie Dugard wrote:
I've just started to use Bacula at our site and I've tried to find the
answer to this question in the manual and in the list archives, but I
haven't had any luck, so I thought I'd try posting to the list myself.
Please point me to the appropriate place if this has already been
answered. I'm running version 1.38.0 on Fedora Core 4. I'm running one
director and one storage daemon. The definitions of the storage are
below.
I have 2 8-tape DDS-4 autochangers each of which has one drive. I was
originally using bacula with just one of these autochangers and
everything worked well except that a full backup took 9-10 tapes so I
couldn't run it completely unattended. Now I've moved more clients over
to use bacula along with the second autochanger and I'd like bacula to
be able to use tapes from both autochangers during the full backup. I
have 2 pools of tapes, one for full backups and one for differentials
and ideally it wouldn't matter if I mixed tapes from both pools in a
single autochanger.
From reading the manual, it seems that I need to specify a particular
Storage for each job and since each Storage maps to a single
autochanger, I haven't been able to say "just use any DDS-4 capable
device and find the tape you want"
Have I missed something in my search? Is this currently possible with
bacula or should I just split up my clients to use one or the other of
the changers?
No, you didn't miss anything. Unfortunately, Bacula can't link multiple
autochangers together.
What you *could* try is to set up one virtual autochanger which uses the
physically different autochangers. This would require serious
modification of mtx-changer, and you'd have to take great care that
Bacula never tries to load a tape from autoloader 1 to the drive in
autoloader 2 :-)
The easier solution would probably be to have parts of your data be
stored to each autochanger, and separating by client would probably be
the easiest solution.
Hope that helps,
Arno
Thanks for your help.
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