Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-05 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:45:44PM -0400, Michael D. Wood wrote: It's literally only writing about 3-4GB's of data on a full backup and anywhere from 100-400MB's on an incremental. So, it's a small backup and it's just for home use. Mostly backing up config files and emails in case

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-05 Thread Michael D. Wood
! -Original Message- From: Uwe Schuerkamp [mailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 5:19 AM To: Michael D. Wood Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:45:44PM

[Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
Hi Guys, I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully, someone here can point me in the right direction. This is just a home setup backing up 2 Linux and 1 FreeBSD server. The backups are just going to a

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:56:34AM -0400, Michael D. Wood wrote: Hi Guys, I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully, someone here can point me in the right direction. This is just a home setup

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
Thank you sir! I will try this in a little while. On 06/04/2013 05:16 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:56:34AM -0400, Michael D. Wood wrote: Hi Guys, I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish.

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2013-06-04 01:56, Michael D. Wood wrote: ... I have messed around with the Max Volume Bytes directive but wasn't sure if I needed to use vchanger with this? You need the changer only if you use more than one drive. With single drive Uwe's recipe will do the trick. Dimitr

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/04/13 02:56, Michael D. Wood wrote: Hi Guys, I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully, someone here can point me in the right direction. This is just a home setup backing up 2 Linux and 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread John Drescher
It's trivial, as long as there are open slots in the pool. You don't need to use the vchanger. Just define an autolabelling format and turn it loose. But why on earth would you split your volumes into 5GB chunks? That's just a little too big to fit onto a DVD, and impractically small for

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
On 06/04/2013 10:47 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 2013-06-04 01:56, Michael D. Wood wrote: ... I have messed around with the Max Volume Bytes directive but wasn't sure if I needed to use vchanger with this? You need the changer only if you use more than one drive. With single drive Uwe's

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
On 06/04/2013 12:28 PM, John Drescher wrote: It's trivial, as long as there are open slots in the pool. You don't need to use the vchanger. Just define an autolabelling format and turn it loose. But why on earth would you split your volumes into 5GB chunks? That's just a little too big