On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 09:50 -1000, WebDawg wrote:
> I need to backup to multiple drives and use them in one slot like
> tapes.
>
>
> That is what you mean right?
Yes, I believe so. I use disk drives for backups at home. One of them is
a 4TB drive that is always online, and is therefore available for
unattended backups. This drive doesn't need vchanger, I just create
files on the drive that are bacula volumes. They get recycled
automatically as needed.
I also have a single-drive capacity mounter that allows inserting a
drive which is then recognized and available. I've got 6 drives that get
used in this. Obviously, not all the volumes on those drives are online
all the time (in fact none of them are), and this is where vchanger
comes in. Each drive is a "magazine" in a single mag capacity vchanger
drive. Insert a drive, run "update slots", and the volumes from that
drive are available. These drives are used as the target of copy jobs,
and stored offline in a fireproof safe. Better would be completely off
site of course, but that's overkill just for my home systems. The
volumes on the 4TB drive end up getting recycled more often than I can
do full backups, so I usually will need one or more of the vchanger
drives when doing restores, so it's not practical to keep them offsite.
If I were at work with more resources, then of course I would use a
higher capacity first tier backup storage device, and keep the second
tier backup storage at an offsite location when not in active use.
--Greg
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