>>>>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:06:25 -0400, hymie!  said:
> 
> Greetings.  A couple of questions so that I can hopefully better
> understand what I'm doing with my Bacula setup.
> 
> Q1:
> Is this statment correct?
> "A Storage may contain several Pools, but a Pool lives on one and only one
> Storage"

No, the volumes in a pool can be used in any storage device that has a
matching Media Type.  The Media Type is assigned to a volume when it is
created.


> Q2:
> If I have two Pools and two Storages, can my Volume names overlap?  Or
> must my Volume names be unique across my various Storages and Pools?

They must be unique.


> (Background -- somehwere in my Bacula config, I ended up with
> * Volume 100 on Storage A as a member of Pool A
> * a request to load Volume 100 on Storage B
> and this blocked all of my backups.)

This might happen if the Media Type for Storage A and Storage B are the same.

__Martin

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