Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread James Harper
> [1] Even RAID5/RAID6 has weaknesses. If you're interested, do a search > for "RAID5 write hole". > A sequential streaming disk write is one case where the write hole really isn't going to be a major problem. In the event of a power or hardware failure at a critical time the worst case is that

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 12:38 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > So you can not have different sized disks or am I reading it wrong? > > > > One thing you can do is divide your 2TB in half making 2 filesystems > on the disk and have 1 magazine for each filesystem. I am pretty sure > the autofs mountin

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: >> --- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: >> >>> From: John Drescher >>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. &g

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/2/2011 12:29 PM, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:34 -0500, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > Is there any

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> That was useful I have not had the time to do any testing but I do see a > few issues. What if the disks is of different size ?? > You have to work around that. I actually have 2 different sized disks in my setup at home. I believe I tricked vchanger by changing the # of volumes when I added the

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:34 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson > wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: > >> Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > >> > Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? >

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: > >> From: John Drescher >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. >> To: "Kenneth Johansson" >> Cc: bacula-users@lists.source

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. > To: "Kenneth Johansson" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 8:34 AM > > You are using

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/02/11 10:18, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > hmm yes but still it's not very efficient use of disk space. I'm going > to solve my problem by using lvm and doing a raid0 of all the disks. I > do have a rather low upper limit of storage usage that will mean I will > only have a handfull of disks any

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread mayak-cq
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 16:18 +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > I guess it's possible to get the autoloader script to work in some way > but it's not entirely clear to me how to do it. hej kenneth, i'm trying to do it right now -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ cheers m ---

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: >> Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: >> > Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? > >> you could add a pool for every disk and tell bacula which pool

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: > Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > > Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? > you could add a pool for every disk and tell bacula which pool it has to > use on each day. You can tell bacula which pool to u

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-01-28 Thread J. Echter
Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > OK I'm tried to use two disk and manually create the volumes. > But this did not work I can not get around this insane coupling of > job/pool to a specific storage device. > sorry, pool should look like this Pool { Name = Disk1 Pool Type = B

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-01-28 Thread J. Echter
Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > OK I'm tried to use two disk and manually create the volumes. > But this did not work I can not get around this insane coupling of > job/pool to a specific storage device. > > Why do I care what storage device is used > > Is there any way to ha

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-01-27 Thread Kenneth Johansson
OK I'm tried to use two disk and manually create the volumes. But this did not work I can not get around this insane coupling of job/pool to a specific storage device. Why do I care what storage device is used Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? Now I created the