Yes I do this with vchanger... I treat each drive as a magazine.. and each
"tape" in the magazine has a Max size.. As I started out with 500Gb drives each
take is 20Gb and each magazine is set to have 10 tapes. So when I moved to 1Tb
and 2Tb drives I simply added additional magazines to the drive.
I use auto-mount to handle the mounting and dismounting of the drive so all I
have to do is push the drive into the slot, and run "bconsole" with the command
"update slots". It then scans for the magazines in the vchanger.conf file and
which drives is finds, mounts and updates the slots with those "tapes. It
works rather well and I've been using it for my off-site backups for over 2
years now.
On 17 Sep 2013, at 02:50, Greg Woods <greg AT gregandeva DOT net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 18:12 +0300, Guy wrote:
>> I use SATA drives and pretend they are tape drives by using vchanger.
>
> I will look into doing something like this with one of those USB-to-SATA
> drive docks that was recommended. I presume I will be able to find some
> way to pretend that the drives are 2TB capacity "tapes", so that I can
> label the drives and Bacula will keep track of which archives are on
> which drive, and tell me which one I need to insert should I ever need
> to do a restore from an archive. I figure once every few weeks, I'll
> manually run some copy jobs to copy backup jobs to the archive drives.
>
> On the 4TB active drive, I just created via the "label" command a bunch
> of files and made them 50GB capacity, which does cause Bacula to write
> 50GB to each file, and it will automatically choose the next file to
> write to when one is full. I have done some restores (including one that
> was actually not just a test) from these backups successfully.
>
> For me, it doesn't matter that USB is slow. I know that of course. I
> knew I wasn't going to get great performance from the storage server as
> soon as I decided to try using a Raspberry Pi. At that time, I was
> looking for a way to avoid having to have yet another always-up server
> in the house, and the always-up servers I already have are already
> running enough stuff that I didn't want to add to them. So getting a
> server for 50 bucks and very low power use seemed like a good thing to
> try, and it has worked very well so far. The amount of data I write is
> low enough that performance is not a major issue. Slow but reliable is
> fine for my purposes.
>
> Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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