On 05/10/2013 07:31 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> I am a bit surprised that no one mentioned Bacula's built-in virtual
>> autochanger feature that has been there for years.  The syntax for
>> enabling it is a bit of a  "kludge" in my opinion, but it is the way that
>> Bacula
>> Systems is recommending to handle multiple disk backup.
> 
> It's been in there for years I know that however I get the sense that
> its usage is not recommended from mostly older mailing list posts from
> you and others on the development team.

Moreover, this

> Device {
>   Name = FileChgr1-Dev1
>   Media Type = File1
>   Archive Device = /tmp
...
> Device {
>   Name = FileChgr1-Dev2
>   Media Type = File1
>   Archive Device = /tmp
...

together with this

> Needless to say ...  you can have a large number of drives in each 
> [autochanger]

means "a large number of drives" need to be all mounted in /tmp at the
same time -- or there's some other crucial bit of information missing.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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