Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 10:32, Baptiste Malguy wrote:
>> Christoph Litauer wrote:
>>> Baptiste Malguy schrieb:
[...]
>>>> 3 - By the way, what do you think of havin a single ~ 60GB disk volume
>>>> or several smaller 5-10GB volumes ? Does anyone has some background
>>>> about it ?
>>> There is no preference -- if bacula would use random access on disk
>>> devices. But as all backup volumes are read sequentially each volume
>>> should be "small". I used 2GB.
>> Right ! The drawback is when you use several storage devices (for example
>> several disk spaces/partitions/directories).
>
> If you take a look in the manual, it explains how to use multiple partitions
> and multiple directories using linking so that Bacula will function correctly
> with them. There is no need for different Storage devices. Bacula has no
> problem restoring from different Volumes (even if they are linked to
> different directories) providing they are all written by the same Device.
Yes, I've already seen this a long time ago. For my case, using different
partitions, each one attributed to a storage device, is not a problem. A single
job will be never be on two of them.
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