Hi,

Does anyone have experience with the Quickport (or Quickport duo) [1] in
combination with Bacula? I suppose one could use it to make backups to
disk, without the need for an expensive multi-disk-enclosure (with or
without RAID). This would work more like backups to tape (with manual
tape exchanging), but instead of using tapes one can use disks.

[1]
http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/externe_gehaeuse/sata_quickport/index_en.html

There are many advantages:
- Disks can be much faster than tape;
- The big disadvantage of disk-to-disk backups (huge amounts of always
simultaneously online disks needed) doesn't apply;
- Cheap.

Why cheap? Because in this world of ever-increasing storage needs, lots
of hard disks become useless while still in perfect shape. I myself have
stacks of ~400GB disks with no more purpose, since I upgraded to >TB
disks. If I could use these to make backups to, it would save me quite
some money.

However I'm not sure if Bacula would allow me to make a disk-to-disk
backup to one disk, then ask me to plug in the next disk and continue.
Any thoughts?

Regards,

Erik.


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