[Box Backup] Add Hard Drives to Backup Store?

[Chris Hane]

This is probably in the realm of new functionality/wish list but I 
thought I would ask in case I am over looking something obvious.

Our current setup for the backup server has a capacity of 250GB. 
Currently we have 1 hard drive in the server (we rsync nightly to 
another off site hard drive rather than use raid arrays in a single 
server).  We have lots of computers backing up to this store.

I would like to add a second hard drive (probably another 250GB) and be 
able to designate which clients goes to which drive/store.  I don't 
think it is possible to have "2" stores managed by 1 server instance. 
Unless there is some magic with mounting drives that I should learn about...

I've thought about using a software raid to join the two drives into 1 
large drive; but I am leaning towards wanting the ability to just add 
drives as demand increases without having to reconfigure existing 
stores/drives/clients....

The other option I thought of was compiling a different set of 
clients/server that communicated on a different port - but this could 
become a maintenance nightmare!

Thoughts appreciated....

Chris....


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