Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage -- 2 disks, no waiting

2011-03-26 10:49:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Storage -- 2 disks, no waiting
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "hymie!" <hymie AT lactose.homelinux DOT net>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:47:14 -0400
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, hymie! <hymie AT lactose.homelinux DOT net> 
wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I have two 1TB disks that I'd like to use for my Bacula volumes.
>
> My bacula-sd.conf says:
> ===
> Device {
>  Name = FileStorage
>  Media Type = File
>  Archive Device = /storage
>  LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>  Random Access = Yes;
>  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>  RemovableMedia = yes;
>  AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> Device {
>  Name = FileStorage2
>  Media Type = File
>  Archive Device = /storage2
>  LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>  Random Access = Yes;
>  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>  RemovableMedia = yes;
>  AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
> ===
>
> However, it appears that each Job in my bacula-dir.conf has a specific
> Storage assigned to it.
>
> How do I configure my Pools and/or my Clients and/or my Jobs to tell bacula
> "I really don't care which one you use"?
>

I would look into the bacula vchanger. Make each disk a virtual
magazine with a fixed number of volumes.

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

Then schedule jobs to the virtual autochanger storage device.

John

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