Re: [Bacula-users] How do you access different devices on an SD?

[Rob G. <ro...@cr...>]

I think anders intends to use a usb drive as if it were a tape, and use it
to carry his full backup offsite.

I believe I saw a project somewhere to use multiple hard drives as tapes.
Some sort of autochanger idea, but applied to hard drives.

Robert Gerber
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 5:41 PM Marco Gaiarin <ga...@li...> wrote:

> Mandi! Anders Gustafsson
>   In chel di` si favelave...
>
> > This is me continuing my quest of creating offsite backups.
> > To conserve bandwidth I thought about having Bacula copy the full backup
> to another USB disk on the main
> > Bacula server. Say that I have two USB disks /mnt/BACKUP1 and /mnt/COPY1.
> > I want backula to copy the full backup to COPY1, then make it copy the
> diff and incremental to a remote
> > site.
> > But how do I set that up? I cannot specify a device in a pool. Do I have
> to run two SDs?
>
> I think i've not understood your intention, but... yes. You can define
> multiple devices per SD, even as (virtual) changers.
>
> See:
>         https://bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackupDesign.pdf
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