On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:46:29PM -0500, Jeremy Parrish wrote:
>> Here is my situation:
>>
>> We currently have 8 2TB USB HDDs. We want to do an 8-week rotation
>> with these drives. Each drive will be on site for backup for 1 week
>> and then in offsite storage for 7 weeks.
>>
>> From my brief experience, it seems that having all backups go to one
>> Pool will not work properly since the Volume bacula chooses to use/
>> recycle may not be present on the drive that is currently in on site.
>
> Works fine for me without doing a pool per USB HDD.  If bacula can't
> find the old volume, it makes a new one with the same name, which
> seems a little odd, but works OK.

This is what I am concerned about. When it creates a new volume with  
the same name as a volume that exists on another drive, things get  
confusing because 1) The "old" volume becomes wasted space on another  
drive, 2) Tracking down which drive you need based on volume name  
becomes nearly impossible, and 3) Bacula can become confused if it  
thinks it is looking at the the "re-created" volume but is actually  
looking at the "orphaned" volume on another drive.

Do you have a solution for these issues, or have they not arisen for  
you?

-Jeremy

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