Hi,

On 03/ 7/10 02:58 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> I just set up a new SD for backing up to HDD.  The system can hande
> about 7TB of backup data.
>
> I don't see a good reason for putting all Volumes in the same directory,
> but I can see reasons for putting Volumes in different directories.
> This would require the creation of multiple Devices within the
> bacula-sd.conf file (one Device for each directory).

Your new SD uses ZFS on FreeBSD, right ? If so - why bother with 
different directories ?

> How big is the disk array you're backing up to?  How do you have your
> Volumes arranged?

We have 3 SD's with 50 TB capacity per SD. All our volumes live in the 
same ZFS filesystem(s) on those boxes.

We store multiple jobs per volume to allow for concurrent jobs with a 
limit on how large each volume can grow.

>


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