> I'm running Bacula 5 on CentOS 6.2 x64 Workstation, The Workstation
> originally had a 1.5 TB Hard Drive inside (backup to file) that I use to
> back up a small File Sever.
>
>
>
> I have since added a 1 TB drive to the Workstation (total two Drives and
> 2.5TB storage) and added it to my list of Storage Devices (FileStorage -
> Media Type File)
>
> Bacula now has two (2) Storage Devices to backup to.
>
> The 1st 1.5TB has just started been used and has only used about 20% of the
> total hard Drive Capacity, the volumes that I created were set to be
> expired
> , recycled and auto prunes so that the drives don't run out of space when
> the file server size starts to increase.
>
> 1. How will Bacula Treat/Handle 2nd New Drive that I've just added?
> 2. Will the new drive only be used when the 1st drive has reached its
> full capacity?
> 3. Can I Schedule backups' to the New 1TB drive ONLY?
> 4. When adding new drives for backups what are the best practices when
> it comes on to Bacula
I've never used CentOS, but on every other linux/BSD systems I've never deal
directly with drives. The notion of having the userland programs deal directly
with hard drives is almost perverse, lol.
Here's what I do, and I know this doesn't directly address your question, but
it's food for thought if nothing else:
I put a file system on the hard drive and mount them to a location, say
'/home/bacula/volumes' and have bacula backup to file based volumes just like
your original disk.
If I have more than one drive I make a raid array. I use ZFS on a zpool raidz
on FreeBSD's GEOM framework. CentOS probably has some raid equivalent. That
way, you can expand and contract or replace the underlying hardware as needed
without interruption. Depending on how you configure things you can even swap
out each disk drive in turn and expand the capacity of the array - all while
the server is up and running.
Again, I know this doesn't answer your question, but it's a thought. That said,
I'm not aware of your specific requirements. However, it would alleviate having
to be concerned with individual disks.
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