Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

[Bryn H. <li...@na...>]

Do you have some specific reason to need to have these two volumes separate?

You might be best off using LVM to create a single logical drive. That 
would certainly be a more flexible solution long term.

Bryn

On 2015-05-20 09:32 AM, SPQR wrote:
> I would like to set up bacula - well, my first steps have been successful.
>
> All my backups are written to /bacula/backup. But / has only 900GB. So I want bacula to write to /sdb1/bacula/backup, too. /sdb1 has another 950GB of space. The sum of available backup-space should be 1850GB HDD:
>
> Well, I got the following config of /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf:
>
>> Storage {                             # definition of myself
>>    Name = backup-sd
>>    SDPort = 9103                  # Director's port
>>    WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
>>    Pid Directory = "/var/run/bacula"
>>    Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
>>    SDAddress = backup.example.com
>> }
>>
>> Director {
>>    Name = backup-dir
>>    Password = "doyoureallywanttoknow"
>> }
>> Device {
>>    Name = FileStorage
>>    Media Type = File
>>    Archive Device = /bacula/backup
>>    LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>>    Random Access = Yes;
>>    AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>>    RemovableMedia = no;
>>    AlwaysOpen = no;
>> }
>>
> Okay - now I would like to add another device. I guess I could just add a second entry like this:
>
>> Device {
>>    Name = FileStorage
>>    Media Type = File
>>    Archive Device = /sdb1/bacula/backup
>>    LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>>    Random Access = Yes;
>>    AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
>>    RemovableMedia = no;
>>    AlwaysOpen = no;
>> }
>>
> ?
>
> Do I have to change something else so that bacula is able to write more than 900GB - if the first 900GB are "full" it should switch to the second hdd.
>
>
> Thank you very much :-)
>
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