Author: Jonathan Bayer <jbayer AT regiscope DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:52:38 -0400
Hi, Running Bacula 3.0.1 on an Ubuntu 9.05 system. Main backups are done to an internal hard disk. Pool is called Internal, volume name is Internal VirtualFull backups are done to an external hard di
Author: Dirk Bartley <dbartley AT schupan DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:49:12 -0400
OK, just re-read the storage= option under pool and it is a little bit confusing to me because I always thought the storage came from the job defaults, then the schedule resource for that run if it h
Hello, It's also important to NOT use the same media type for volumes handled by different storage devices that don't really share the same set of volumes. Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann San
Author: Jonathan Bayer <jbayer AT regiscope DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:39 -0400
I have a temporary solution, will send another message later after I've conducted a few more tests. I simply created a new label on the external drive, so now the drive contains two labels. Now it is
Author: Jonathan Bayer <jbayer AT regiscope DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:40 -0400
That doesn't make sense, because the only storage I reference is the internal storage. The only reference to the external storage is in the internal storage. However, I may have found the problem. I
Author: Jonathan Bayer <jbayer AT regiscope DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:41 -0400
But this is EXACTLY what I'm doing. Same media type (File), two different devices. In fact, I can see this happening in many environments. What about a site that has multiple tape drives, all of the
Hi, Then you decided you'd move the volumes from one storage device to the other manually :-) Either they choose to keep volumes assigned to each storage device (different media types) or they move m
Author: Jonathan Bayer <jbayer AT regiscope DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:43:48 -0400
OK. So how do I make the media type different if they both are disk-based volumes? (re-read the manual) Oh. So if I simply name the external type as "ExternalFile", that would work? So even if the ph
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:17:45 -0400
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Bayer<jbayer AT regiscope DOT com> wrote: That is fine if a user can insert the media from one drive to the other. If they are in separate locations or you d
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:59:31 -0400
Yes, You can name the media Type whatever you want. This is more of a way to inform bacula that X media can only be used in Y storage. And X1 media can only be used in Y1 storage. It makes no differ
Author: Jonathan Bayer <jbayer AT regiscope DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:11:09 -0400
I got excited when I read the description of the VirtualFull option. In my excitement I neglected to re-read the description of the storage types. My mistake, thank you all for your comments. JBB --