OK I'm tried to use two disk and manually create the volumes.
But this did not work I can not get around this insane coupling of
job/pool to a specific storage device. 

Why do I care what storage device is used ???? 

Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ??

Now I created the volumes in bconsole and could verify that they was
created on the correct drive but when the job starts and picks a volume
out of the pool it goes to the storage device that is on the job/pool
(and yes you do need one) not the one that the volume is actually
created on and that obviously fails.


On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:29 +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> I have the same question in 3 different formats. 
> 
> 1. HELP!!
> 
> 
> 2. I'm trying to setup a system where I start with one client and add
> more as needed and where I start with one disk as storage and add more
> as needed. Now the actual storage disks will be just JBOD but they will
> be always mounted into the filesystem of the storage server. I do not
> want to have to create any raid system for the storage. If a storage
> disk is going bad I will simply replace it and delete all the
> jobs/volumes that was stored on that disk. I'm counting on bacula to
> realize what clients now needs to do a full/differential backup to again
> have a valid backup. 
> 
> So what would be a good configuration for this setup??
> 
> 
> 3. I have been testing bacula for a few days now and while basic backup
> of one client works fine in the different setup I tried it's hard to
> figure out a way that is actually extensible when trying to store to
> disks. 
> 
> Clearly mapping one disk to one volume is not going to work very well
> due to retention time and reuse.
> 
> creating a single disk storage and then having the clients do a  singe
> job to single volume worked nicely and is using the storage efficiently
> when using one disk but I never figured out how to extend this system to
> two disks. there is a one to one mapping from job to storage and I need
> more than one storage device when adding the second disk. adding the
> storage was just duplication the first one but how do I then use it ???
> I could assign a new client to the disk but this would really badly hurt
> the utilization of the disk. very inefficient. 
> 
> I tried to experiment with the autoloader feature but then the meaning
> of "Archive Device" changed meaning from the directory where volumes is
> created in into the actual volume totally breaking the functionality.
> 
> So now I'm thinking about some system where I have one storage device
> per disk. But instead of allowing bacula to create the volumes at
> demand(cant make it work on multiple storage devices) doing it manually
> and putting the volumes in one common pool. by creating relatively small
> volumes I can increase the probability that the data on every volume
> will be from the same job and will have the same retention period so the
> volume can efficiently be reused. Would this work ?? 
> 
> 
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