On 03/06/14 02:35, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> The whole concept of removable media in Bacula makes sense for tapes,
>> but does not translate well to removable disks. vchanger is a rather
>> nasty hack - but (kinda) works. It would be much nicer to have bacula
>> deal with removable disks directly - and not hacked in. In the TSM
>> world, this was easily done by "vary offline /path/to/volume" and can
>> easily be scripted. TSM then knows the volume isn't available and
>> doesn't try to use it. During a restore, it will say "VOLUME <blah>
>> required".
> Bacula actually handles removable drives quite well -- many years ago, I
> programmed it to do my laptop backups while I was on vacation to USB
> sticks.  The problem is that most people don't know how to configure
> them properly.  vchanger or even Bacula's virtual autochanger is
> overkill for removable media.

Do you have any good links for this? I've only come across vchanger etc
on my journeys... If there is a better way, I'd love to see it!

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Steven Haigh

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