On 04/06/2011 12:44 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> Yes you made sense.
>
> How are you getting bacula to use the next drive when the first is
> full? Different storage devices? Rotating symbolic links? aufs /
> unionfs?
>
> John
>

I haven't gotten this to work yet, that is my goal.  The two options I 
have gotten are to turn my jbod into a raid or use "vchanger".  I'm all 
for using RAID, but my co-workers don't want to too.. they are worried 
about the array getting corrupted and then we lose all our backups, 
where as in a jbod if a drive dies, we only lose what's on that drive.  
Personally, I'd rather use raid and that would end my threads on getting 
bacula to use multiple drives.  ha ha

I started looking at vchanger but as bacula is already complicated 
enough, I'd rather not toss another 3rd party software package into the 
mix... but if I have to I will.

I'm wondering now if I could setup a bunch of volumes across the 
multiple drives and will bacula use the space however it wants to?  I 
guess I can try and test this.

Right now I have my storage daemon conf file setup with a device 
resource for each of my drives in the jbod box, I also have a storage 
resource setup in my director conf file for each of the drives in the box.

When I manually create a volume it asks me which drive, volume name and 
which pool.  So it /appears/ that bacula will write to multiple drives 
without using vchanger, but I seem to be missing something, because it's 
not working.


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