Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features

2009-10-31 08:33:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:29:28 -0400
John Drescher wrote:
>>       OK, I think I've got it.  Your use of the term "volume" is throwing
>> me a little.  I am used to the term meaning "one or more storage media
>> accessed as one logical device".  In short, a "volume" is something which
>> shows up as /dev/hdx, /dev/sdx, /dev/mdx, /dev/dmx, etc.
> 
> A volume, although is a tape or dvd it is not the same as a hard drive
> or mount. Bacula stores disk volumes as files. So on a hard drive you
> can have 1 or more bacula volumes.

I advocate the use of FileSet, Volume, etc when referring to 
Bacula-based entities.  It sometimes helps.

To take the definition of a volume further, this reading is suggested:

http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Getting_Started_with_Bacula.html

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