Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] persistant drive letters under Windows

2009-09-01 04:58:42
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] persistant drive letters under Windows
From: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:53:48 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:26:45 +1000, James Harper wrote:

> I am running the bacula-sd on windows and using removable USB drives as
> the backup media. There are currently 3 disks labelled DISK001, DISK002,
> and DISK003. On each disk are volumes labelled the same as the disk but
> with a letter suffix, eg DISK001A, DISK001B, DISK001C, etc
> 
> I plug the USB drive in and it defaults to F:. I then assign it to be
> V:, but when I swap disks over for the next backup, the new disk becomes
> F:, presumably because the system now has a new disk assignment for V:
> which invalidates the previous one.
> 
> Is there a way around this to have multiple removable drives all assign
> to the same letter as long as only one is plugged in at once?

maybe this tool is for you:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

"many" years ago i used another one, but can't find it anymore. 

- Thomas


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