On 08/22/17 13:10, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > We're using plain SATA drives in hot-swap bays. With vchanger they work > just fine for backup -- we haven't tried restoring anything from an > already removed disk yet -- but they do die on you even without dropping > 'em.
> So I've a post-backup script that figures out which of the vchanger > "magazines" is the "current" one and rsyncs it to anther drive. That way > if a drive dies during write, I lose at most the latest backup. That sounds like a pretty good idea. After-the-fact redundancy. > There is a number of obvious problems with that, and here's a > non-obvious one: instead of filling them up strictly sequentially, every > once in a while bacula randomly decides to write a volume in some other > magazine. At which point my clever script works exactly as designed... I can see how that would be a problem. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
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