Hi Ana, thank you for chiming in, see my response inline: > On 1. Sep 2022, at 13:38, Ana Emília M. Arruda <emiliaarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:43 PM Justin Case <jus7inc...@gmail.com > <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am interested in the new V13 storage groups feature. > If I wanted a given pool to use file folumes on several externally connected > USB HDDs: > > -the devices would be connected all the time, would the director fill the > devices one ofter the other, or would it scatter the jobs randomly across the > devices? > > This will depend on the storage group policy you use. The default > "ListedOrder" will always use the first storage in the storage group list > unless there is a connection failure. The LeastUsed policy will load balance > the storage usage between the storages defined in the list. > > It will not spread jobs randomly across the devices or it will not skip a > storage if it gets full. > > -may I extend the list of storages in a given pool to extend the available > storage space by adding USB HDD devices to the storage? (I mean distinct HDD > devices, not enlarging the storage of a RAID!) > Yes. > > > -This would mean that I don’t need to use vchanger vor this? > vchanger and storage groups have different purposes, but none will skip a > device if it gets full. >
So to me it seems Storage Groups could actually be a good way to dynamically extend USB storage (although requiring manual interaction). when a device is full, and using ListedOrder, I could move the full device to the end of the list and could I still do restore jobs from all devices in the list? I was thinking vchanger would let me use a bunch of individual disks and fill them up one after the other… without me needing to manually interact with it after initial correct setup… weird.
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