Re: [Bacula-users] New FileStorage files in a different directory

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:26 +0200, Bernd Schoeller said:
>>
>> Is there an easy way to add more volumes to the FileStorage in a
>> different directory?
>
> Not within bacula itself.
>
> It might work with symbolic links (create a volume on /store, use mv to move
> it to /store2, use ln -s to link from /store to /store2).
>
> A better way might be to convert /store and /store2 into an LVM partition so
> it can use both disks for one directory.
>

Be careful with the LVM. If one drive dies (unless both are RAIDs) you
loose all of your backups. I would instead use the bacula vchanger.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/

With the vchanger I would make each storage a virtual magazine.
However the conversion would probably require migration and I believe
you may run into problems if the storages are different sizes.

The documentation also says not to use vchanger for anything other than testing.

Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University

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