>>>> Does anyone do something like this already? How can I handle the eSATA
>>>> drives? Is there a better way?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Steven... I believe that you can accomplish what you are looking for 
>>> using
>>> Bacula's "Copy Jobs", Josh Fisher's excellent "vchanger" add-on, and a 
>>> little
>>> hard work. :)

I use and recommend this as well. I make each removable disk represent
a virtual autochanger magazine with a fixed number of same sized
volumes.

>>> Obviously it is more complicated than the four or five steps listed below, 
>>> but
>>> here is the basic concept and process:
>>>
> I generally have file volumes limited to 10GB for ease of moving around if I
> need to. I said 2GB in your case, because of the very small 40GB "partition"
>

Small volumes also help in the case of recycling. Remember that bacula
recycles a whole volume at a time it can not reclaim space from
individual jobs inside a volume until the whole volume can be
recycled.

John

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