[Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 07 October 2005 18:24, Gurpreet Singh wrote: In the future, please send/copy your questions to the list -- thanks. Hi A quick question for you. Can i daisy chain two tape drives and use it with Bacula? Quick answer: I have no idea since I have never heard of daisy chaining tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Oct 2005 at 18:57, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 18:24, Gurpreet Singh wrote: In the future, please send/copy your questions to the list -- thanks. Hi A quick question for you. Can i daisy chain two tape drives and use it with Bacula? Quick answer: I have no

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Oct 2005 at 11:12, Gurpreet Singh wrote: thanks alot for you prompt reply. I appreciate that. Could you please tell me how exactly daisy chain drives work with Bacula? Do you need to configure bacula for all the drives in the chain or just one? Could it be used for mirroring the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
I have done this in the past with OmniBack. If I had a two tape backup, the backup would write to both tapes sequentially, rather than waiting for a tape change. Hope this is correct and clears things up. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote: I have done this in the past with OmniBack. If I had a two tape backup, the backup would write to both tapes sequentially, rather than waiting for a tape change. Hope this is correct and clears things up. As in Instead of using a changer ? AB

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread drescher0110-bacula
I have done this in the past with OmniBack. If I had a two tape backup, the backup would write to both tapes sequentially, rather than waiting for a tape change. Hope this is correct and clears things up. I too have used this feature in the past (with dvds) and it can be a real time saver.

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Query: DAilsy Chain TwoTape Drive on Bacula

2005-10-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Yes. The U in UMDNJ stands for University. ;) _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.| IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630