I think anders intends to use a usb drive as if it were a tape, and use it to carry his full backup offsite.
I believe I saw a project somewhere to use multiple hard drives as tapes. Some sort of autochanger idea, but applied to hard drives. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 [email protected] On Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 5:41 PM Marco Gaiarin <[email protected]> wrote: > Mandi! Anders Gustafsson > In chel di` si favelave... > > > This is me continuing my quest of creating offsite backups. > > To conserve bandwidth I thought about having Bacula copy the full backup > to another USB disk on the main > > Bacula server. Say that I have two USB disks /mnt/BACKUP1 and /mnt/COPY1. > > I want backula to copy the full backup to COPY1, then make it copy the > diff and incremental to a remote > > site. > > But how do I set that up? I cannot specify a device in a pool. Do I have > to run two SDs? > > I think i've not understood your intention, but... yes. You can define > multiple devices per SD, even as (virtual) changers. > > See: > https://bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackupDesign.pdf > > -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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