Re: [Bacula-users] Hypothetical question ...
Phil Stracchino escribió: I have the following scenario. I have a main storage server with a multi-terabyte disk array, but only SATA, no SCSI. I also have a SCSI LTO-2 drive which, for environmental reasons, cannot live in the same location as the main storage server. In order to be able to copy or migrate jobs from the main storage array to tape, the array and the tape drive need to be controlled by the same FD. I have the ability to put the LTO-2 drive on a separate server located on the other side of the wall, connected to the main storage server with a dedicated point-to-point gigabit link. It occurs to me that, theoretically speaking, I might be able to publish the LTO-2 drive as an iSCSI target over the gigabit link and drive it with the storage server's FD. Has anyone tried doing anything like this with Bacula? If so, did it work? How did you accomplish it? The target OS for the tape host is probably Solaris 10. This isn't a bacula topic, is a iscsi topic. ISCSI rcf says that any scsi device is contemplated (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3720) and thus is possible to export as a iscsi device. SCST iscsi implementation (http://scst.sourceforge.net/index.html) says that this is possible via SCSI pass-through. You can investigate others iscsi framework/target proyects: http://scst.sourceforge.net/index.html http://stgt.sourceforge.net/ http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ http://linux-iscsi.org/ -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Hypothetical question ...
On 01/22/10 09:11, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote: Phil Stracchino escribió: Has anyone tried doing anything like this with Bacula? If so, did it work? How did you accomplish it? The target OS for the tape host is probably Solaris 10. This isn't a bacula topic, is a iscsi topic. Oh, sure. I wasn't looking for OS-specific technical implementation assistance, I'm researching that separately. I just wanted to know whether anyone has successfully used Bacula to back up to a tape device via iSCSI, and whether any specific Bacula configuration tricks were necessary. Sorry if that was unclear. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Hypothetical question ...
I have the following scenario. I have a main storage server with a multi-terabyte disk array, but only SATA, no SCSI. I also have a SCSI LTO-2 drive which, for environmental reasons, cannot live in the same location as the main storage server. In order to be able to copy or migrate jobs from the main storage array to tape, the array and the tape drive need to be controlled by the same FD. I have the ability to put the LTO-2 drive on a separate server located on the other side of the wall, connected to the main storage server with a dedicated point-to-point gigabit link. It occurs to me that, theoretically speaking, I might be able to publish the LTO-2 drive as an iSCSI target over the gigabit link and drive it with the storage server's FD. Has anyone tried doing anything like this with Bacula? If so, did it work? How did you accomplish it? The target OS for the tape host is probably Solaris 10. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
