I have the same question in 3 different formats. 1. HELP!!
2. I'm trying to setup a system where I start with one client and add more as needed and where I start with one disk as storage and add more as needed. Now the actual storage disks will be just JBOD but they will be always mounted into the filesystem of the storage server. I do not want to have to create any raid system for the storage. If a storage disk is going bad I will simply replace it and delete all the jobs/volumes that was stored on that disk. I'm counting on bacula to realize what clients now needs to do a full/differential backup to again have a valid backup. So what would be a good configuration for this setup?? 3. I have been testing bacula for a few days now and while basic backup of one client works fine in the different setup I tried it's hard to figure out a way that is actually extensible when trying to store to disks. Clearly mapping one disk to one volume is not going to work very well due to retention time and reuse. creating a single disk storage and then having the clients do a singe job to single volume worked nicely and is using the storage efficiently when using one disk but I never figured out how to extend this system to two disks. there is a one to one mapping from job to storage and I need more than one storage device when adding the second disk. adding the storage was just duplication the first one but how do I then use it ??? I could assign a new client to the disk but this would really badly hurt the utilization of the disk. very inefficient. I tried to experiment with the autoloader feature but then the meaning of "Archive Device" changed meaning from the directory where volumes is created in into the actual volume totally breaking the functionality. So now I'm thinking about some system where I have one storage device per disk. But instead of allowing bacula to create the volumes at demand(cant make it work on multiple storage devices) doing it manually and putting the volumes in one common pool. by creating relatively small volumes I can increase the probability that the data on every volume will be from the same job and will have the same retention period so the volume can efficiently be reused. Would this work ?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
