-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2014 06:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 03/06/14 02:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> The whole concept of removable media in Bacula makes sense for tapes, >>> but does not translate well to removable disks. vchanger is a rather >>> nasty hack - but (kinda) works. It would be much nicer to have bacula >>> deal with removable disks directly - and not hacked in. In the TSM >>> world, this was easily done by "vary offline /path/to/volume" and can >>> easily be scripted. TSM then knows the volume isn't available and >>> doesn't try to use it. During a restore, it will say "VOLUME <blah> >>> required". >> Bacula actually handles removable drives quite well -- many years ago, I >> programmed it to do my laptop backups while I was on vacation to USB >> sticks. The problem is that most people don't know how to configure >> them properly. vchanger or even Bacula's virtual autochanger is >> overkill for removable media. > > Do you have any good links for this? I've only come across vchanger etc > on my journeys... If there is a better way, I'd love to see it! It is all documented in the manual, but I don't think that there are any good examples of how to use things like USB sticks and drives. I haven't used it for quite a long time now, because I have always had much better connectivity so found no need to backup my laptop while on extended vacations (used to be 2 months/year in one shot).
The main trick is to indicate that a file device is removable. In that case, then if there is a mount command defined, Bacula will attempt to mount it. If there is no mount command then it will simply assume it is mounted and scan the device for a volume. If it finds one it will attempt to use it. It will probably take a bit of playing with it to make it work. For me, I found it quite usable as I could just define a Device that was in fact a USB stick, and I could plug the stick in before the job, run a job, then if Bacula found a Volume on the stick it would use it. I wasn't aware of how TSM worked, but what Bacula can do sounds fairly similar -- it just needs to know that the Device is "removable". Sorry, I don't remember more about it, but since most people seem to thing vchanger is simpler and I was the only one using this removable feature, I didn't document it. Best regards, Kern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOOA2wACgkQNgfoSvWqwEh6bACg7TP7Slww2IZZubaBz1JGVVOL 52wAoIRILN00+IwUvK5ntOfH6fqBhoB1 =ahbs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
