Hi, 07.09.2007 19:39,, Bob Duman wrote:: > I finally have a working configuration of Bacula going and I still > cannot figure out how to get what I've asked here to work. > > I have a two drive Quantum tape unit (LTO2), but it is NOT an > autoloader. It is just two tape drives in one chassis and the > drives are individually addressed as /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst1. > Tapes need to be manually loaded into these drives. Our current > full backup is larger than one tape and so far I have only been > able to get it to work with one drive which forces me to manually > change a tape then next morning and finish the backup once users > are logged onto the system. Is there any way to get Bacula to use > both tape drives for a single job so that I can load each drive > with a tape from the appropriate pool and then when the first tape > fills it will automatically switch to the second drive and finish > the backup without human intervention? > > I hope this makes sense and any help you can offer will be > appreciated.
Ok, as a start search the list archives for mail from Mario Wolf, "Using multiple tapedrives as autochanger!". Try that - you'll have to do some modifications to his original setup by now - and see how far you get. I think this approach should work... Arno > Thanks, Bob Duman > > -----Original Message----- From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bruno Friedmann Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:08 PM To: > 'bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] > Cascaded drive pool > > > Hi Bob, > > Typically, it's automatic in Bacula. From example, you create a > pool for each server you want to save (to file or tape doesn't > matter) For each pool you define the number of volume you want, > prelabeled or not (bacula could do this alone) and with correct > definition for prunning / purging time, everything going fine. > > Read carefully the doc. All information needed is inside ;-) > > > Bob Duman wrote: >> I’ve been evaluating Symantec BackupExec and Bacula for use in >> backing up a 6 to 8 server Windows environment and we’ll be >> adding Linux later. BackupExec has a feature called “cascaded >> drive pools” where you can put two (or more) tape drives in a >> pool and a job will use the first tape drive and then if that >> tape fills it will use the second and so on. >> >> Is there any way to implement this feature in Bacula? >> >> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. >> >> Bob Duman Senior Systems Engineer >> >> > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
