Bacula-users

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

2009-04-14 11:26:07
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk backups and the scratch pool
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:22:04 +0100
>>>>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:54:51 -0400 (EDT), James Chamberlain said:
> 
> 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.

Yes, that's true :-(

You would have to decide in advance how many volumes of each pool should be
stored on disk3 (using the existing media types).

__Martin

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