Sounds interesting, can you please send me the link? I'd love to take look
at that solution - might help me with a problem that has been bugging me for
a while where backup to USB Ext Drives are concerned.

With regards,
Janco van der Merwe

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-----Original Message-----
From: richard.hauswald [mailto:richard.hauswald AT dser DOT de] 
Sent: 06 June 2008 14:39
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup 1,4TB to two usb 1TB disks


Well, this would be a solution, but I'd have to keep an eye on the pool size
and correct space problems manually but I'm searching for a fully automated
solution. Did some additional research on this topic and found the
"vchanger" script by Josh Fisher. As far as I understood that stuff, it uses
a virtual changer consisting of multiple magazines(a magazine is one usb
drive) with multiple tapes(folders). In the corresponding document called
"Bacula Removable Disk Howto" it is also described how to set up udev and
autofs to mount the different usbdrives(virtual magazines) every time to the
same location. Looks pretty good, but this method has one downside: I need
to do a backup spanning over several magazines. Maybe someone here has a
solution for this kind of problem.
Thanks a lot,
Richard


Janco van der Merwe-3 wrote:
> 
> Maybe the Bacula experts can correct me if I'm wrong:
> 
> Why not split the jobs into 2 pools with a Max Volume bytes of say 700GB.
> 
> The 1st Volume writes to Disk one and then the 2nd Volume is written to
> Disk
> 2?
> 
> Won't this be a work around?
> 
> 
> With regards,
> Janco van der Merwe
> 
> Computer Kit Systems
> Tel Direct: 011 695 5316
> Switchboard: 011 695 5300
> e-mail: janco_va AT cks.co DOT za
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard.hauswald [mailto:richard.hauswald AT dser DOT de] 
> Sent: 06 June 2008 13:32
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup 1,4TB to two usb 1TB disks
> 
> 
> Bad luck for me so far, the disk-changer script works on real files, doing
> links and so on. There is no support for usb drives. 
> 
> richard.hauswald wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks a lot John, I'll have a look at it, but sounds like the stuff I
>> need. I tried to google that stuff, but well, if you search for charger
>> instead of changer... :-(
>> 
>> John Drescher-2 wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think i
>>>>> need something like virtual auto-charger using usb hard drives as
>>>>> "tape".
>>>>> This way i could use the disks as "tapes". I searched through the
>>>>> manual
>>>>> (pdf version) but did not find something appropriate.
>>>>
>>> Although I have never tested it what you want exists. See the
>>> disk-changer script it should be in the same directory as the
>>> mtx-changer script.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
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