Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: yes or no?

Fair enough.

I used a one-liner of bash to pre-create of my volume files and fill the barcodes file, then used bconsole's label command to label all of them in one go. For example on my 1700-vol storage array, this was:

bash:
for f in {1..1700}; do
dd if=/dev/zero of=$root/storage/$hostname-autochanger/slot$f bs=1 count=0 seek=107374182400;
echo "$f:hostname-autochanger-$f" >> $root/storage/$hostname-autochanger/barcodes;
done

bconsole:
label pool=Scratch storage=foo slots=1-1700 barcodes

Regards,
Ben Roberts

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian [mailto:florian.splett AT web DOT de]
> Sent: 18 September 2014 11:17
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: yes or no?
>
> I considered a similar approach at first, but after asking other users in
> this network, how long they want to keep backups, we decided on a rather
> long time period of multiple years. Considering that and the fact that we
> want to use one Volume per month, it would be a lot of work to pre-label
> everything.
>
> So for now I switched back to simple devices without autochanger, so that
> the Volumes just get created when needed. I still have to test if it works
> though.
>
> Regards,
> Florian S.
>
> Am 18.09.2014 um 11:42 schrieb Roberts, Ben:
> > > Now I actually had to wonder: Is there no way to have bacula do both
> > > labeling AND switching Volumes automatically?
> > > Or do I just misunderstand?
> >
> > Personally I pre-label all my volumes into the Scratch pool, and let
> > Bacula handle moving volumes from there to a backup pool as needed.
> > They're then recycled back into the Scratch pool when the volume
> > retention period is reached. That way I can label up volumes just once
> > in a batch when purchasing new storage, and Bacula handles the rest.
> > Bacula doesn't need to re-label volumes during day-to-day operation.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ben Roberts
>
>
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