On Wed, August 12, 2015 3:12 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

I'm trying to get this up and running, and have run into something that isn't clear in the docs: volumes are part of pools, I get, but I see that the limit to the number of volumes is 100. Is this a drop-dead can't-go-beyond? If I have > 100 clients to back up, do they all go to one volume, or to individual volumes?

I set it up originally a while back (and it was brain racking exercise), and it works seamlessly since, so I'm really rusted on the definitions. It probably is a restriction how many volumes you can have open simultaneously for jobs. In my case volumes are files ( <= 50Gb - my restriction for volume size) on big RAIDs, even a single RAID (I have 6 currenly attached to the server box) contains over 1000 volumes. For flexibility, I set all clients with their individual volumes, job names, pool names, etc, and even these volumes are stored into individual directories one container directory per client. For each client I have on the server two config files (one for storage daemon and one for director) - all these client files are included in the main sd or dir config files in the following manner:

# Read client directory for config files. Remember to bconsole "reload" after adding a client. @|"sh -c 'cat /usr/local/etc/bacula/conf.d/clients/*.conf'"

(Hm, ignore my comment, I usually restart sd and dir daemons to re-read configs after adding client).

I hope this helps.

Valeri

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