What: That Bacula be modified to enable the simultaneous use of multiple tape drives, either as a bunch of freestanding units or as multiple drives in an autochanger.
Why: For me personally, this would permit faster simpler backup of a large single filesystem. I have a two-drive LTO4 tapechanger and at present, in order to utilise both drives at once, I have to create two jobs each of which backs up part of the filesystem. This is not optimal as the two subparts can change size radically, meaning that one drive may spend much of its time idle. I also have to split my tapes into two pools, one for each job. I have seen one other similar request to the users list recently, whereby a user had a bynch of freestanding drives which he wanted to preload with a set of tapes once a week, and then have Bacula automatically organise his backup over the tapes as it saw fit. This may make a cheap alternative to a tapechanger. A device pool maybe? Cheers, Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
