Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-19 Thread Romain Dolbeau
Daniel Kamm wrote: > Some months ago, I was *thinking* of such a similar solution with vtapes > on hot swap disks. I was thinking of having disks instead of tapes and > the possibility to have disk volumes (like tape volumes) put in and out > of a disk array. We need to vacate media for environme

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-19 Thread Romain Dolbeau
John Drescher wrote: > I believe it is much better for your backups to use individual disks. Why ? Single disk means a single failure leads to data loss. So it's not reliable by itself. RAID is far from perfect, but RAID1 and RAID6 have good price/size/reliability trade-offs, one can usually fin

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Kamm
Am 2/18/10 11:34 PM, schrieb Arthur Emerson III: > I built a dedicated Bacula SD box from a 2U Intel-branded > server. It has 12 x 1TB SATA drives, and boots off of an > IDE solid state disk. [..] Thank you for your information Arthur. You should definitly post your whole setup on Bacula Wiki, t

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Heitor Faria wrote: > > I have a 12 tb disk array and I use the disks individually > (since my boss dont want to use RAID). Each disk is a single > storage for Bacula (but it makes addministration a little bit > complex). Is there a way of using all disks volumes as a single > Bacula storage?

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/18/2010 3:36 PM, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: >> Google search for bacula vchanger >> >> John >> >> > Thanks John. I will try that. > But I think the only problem is I wont be able to run restore jobs while > backup is running - simultaneously. Am I right? > > vchanger implements

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks John. I will try that. > But I think the only problem is I wont be able to run restore jobs while > backup is running - simultaneously. Am I right? > Only if the backup and restore are on the same volume. Otherwise concurrency, multiple virtual drives will lessen the chance of that. Also r

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
> Google search for bacula vchanger > > John > Thanks John. I will try that. But I think the only problem is I wont be able to run restore jobs while backup is running - simultaneously. Am I right? -- Download IntelĀ®

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread John Drescher
> You don't use RAID, so you don't need to secure the data storage, so why > not trying LVM (maybe with GPT EFI)? > > You will have one bug partition, and no problem with multiple disks storage. > > But you will need to delete all data before installing a LVM. > That is much less reliable than the

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Holden
Cyril Lavier wrote: > Heitor Faria wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a 12 tb disk array and I use the disks individually (since my >> boss dont want to use RAID). >> Each disk is a single storage for Bacula (but it makes addministration a >> little bit complex). >> Is there a way of using all disks

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread John Drescher
> I have a 12 tb disk array and I use the disks individually (since my > boss dont want to use RAID). I believe it is much better for your backups to use individual disks. > Each disk is a single storage for Bacula (but it makes addministration a > little bit complex). > Is there a way of using a

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Cyril Lavier
Heitor Faria wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a 12 tb disk array and I use the disks individually (since my > boss dont want to use RAID). > Each disk is a single storage for Bacula (but it makes addministration a > little bit complex). > Is there a way of using all disks volumes as a single Bacula

[Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Heitor Faria
Hi folks, I have a 12 tb disk array and I use the disks individually (since my boss dont want to use RAID). Each disk is a single storage for Bacula (but it makes addministration a little bit complex). Is there a way of using all disks volumes as a single Bacula storage? I think it would be a ni

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple disks within pool?

2008-01-26 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 26, 2008 5:28 PM, Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We're experimenting with bacula as possible replacement for our netvault > setup. On the netvault server, we have multiple partitions that we can > use for file-based "tapes". (This allows us to easily add arrays / space > i

[Bacula-users] multiple disks within pool?

2008-01-26 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, We're experimenting with bacula as possible replacement for our netvault setup. On the netvault server, we have multiple partitions that we can use for file-based "tapes". (This allows us to easily add arrays / space in case we need more; something a striped setup would not allow for instance.

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-09-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 14:01, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:31, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > >> Dan Langille wrote: > >>> On 28 Aug 2006 at 14:59, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > >>> > Hello the list, > > I backup files on two disks: one for

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-08-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 14:01, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:31, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > >> Dan Langille wrote: > >>> On 28 Aug 2006 at 14:59, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > >>> > Hello the list, > > I backup files on two disks: one for

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-08-29 Thread Philippe CHAUVAT
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:31, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: >> Dan Langille wrote: >>> On 28 Aug 2006 at 14:59, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: >>> Hello the list, I backup files on two disks: one for even weeks and one for odd weeks. I mount disks on a unique mount p

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-08-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:31, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2006 at 14:59, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > > > >> Hello the list, > >> > >> I backup files on two disks: one for even weeks and one for odd weeks. I > >> mount disks on a unique mount point like "/backup" >

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-08-29 Thread Philippe CHAUVAT
Dan Langille wrote: > On 28 Aug 2006 at 14:59, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > >> Hello the list, >> >> I backup files on two disks: one for even weeks and one for odd weeks. I >> mount disks on a unique mount point like "/backup" >> >> When I want to restore files, I need sometimes to have both mounted

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-08-28 Thread Dan Langille
On 28 Aug 2006 at 14:59, Philippe CHAUVAT wrote: > Hello the list, > > I backup files on two disks: one for even weeks and one for odd weeks. I > mount disks on a unique mount point like "/backup" > > When I want to restore files, I need sometimes to have both mounted... > but on the same mount

[Bacula-users] Multiple disks

2006-08-28 Thread Philippe CHAUVAT
Hello the list, I backup files on two disks: one for even weeks and one for odd weeks. I mount disks on a unique mount point like "/backup" When I want to restore files, I need sometimes to have both mounted... but on the same mount point. Any idea to solve this ? Best regards Philippe -