Hi Dmitri,

WOW! I didn’t know about vchanger. I just read the wiki article about it and 
this could really change how I do disk based backup. 

I like using a NAS for bacula in the datacenter but some of my customers have 
it in their offices and this would really make things cheaper with higher 
retentions. Thanks.!!

Jeff

On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu> 
wrote:

> On 8/14/2014 7:34 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> ...
>> Is there a good way to plan ahead?
> 
> If your backup is growing (they always are), you will eventually hit the 
> limits. There are a couple of workarounds: 1. use hot-swappable drives 
> and vchanger. That means manual swapping of drives & re-labeling the 
> volumes when your storage fills up. Some volumes will be offline. 2. Use 
> resizable storage like zfs and hope drive capacity grows faster than 
> your backup. Then you can keep replacing your drives w/ bigger ones & 
> keep up while keeping everything online. No vchanger means bacula's 
> autolabeling will work, too. 3. Back up to "cloud files". This one's 
> ugly for many reasons but in theory "the cloud" will accommodate any 
> number of file volumes, they'll all be online, autolabeled, etc.
> 
> Dima
> 
> 
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