Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk backups and the scratch pool

2009-04-14 07:58:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk backups and the scratch pool
From: James Chamberlain <jamesc AT exa DOT com>
To: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:54:51 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Martin Simmons wrote:

>>>>>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:41:00 -0400, James Chamberlain said:
>>
>> The basic problem for me is that I've hit the 8 TB file system size
>> limit with ext3, and I don't have ext4 available to me yet.  With tape
>> libraries, you can keep adding more tapes to increase the size of your
>> pool.  With disk-based backups, once you've hit that 8 TB limit with
>> ext3, you can't.  So if that's the problem I'm trying to solve, what
>> are my options with Bacula?
>
> I'm not sure if it will work, but you could try using symbolic links from one
> file system to the volumes on the other file system(s)?
>
> __Martin

Thanks for the suggestion, and I considered it, but I don't think it'll 
work.  The Disk3 volumes are still going to be of a different media type 
than the Disk0 volumes.

James

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