[Box Backup] Add Hard Drives to Backup Store?

[Per Thomsen]

On 4/20/05 10:34 PM, Chris Hane wrote:

>
> 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...
>
> [snip]

Maybe I'm missing something, but you can add a second 'disc set'.

Edit raidfile.conf, to include your new disk. The new section should 
look something like this:

disc1
{
        SetNumber = 1
        BlockSize = 4096
        Dir0 = /backup001
        Dir1 = /backup001
        Dir2 = /backup001
}
                                                                                                                                    

Then, when you're creating new users, make sure to use '1' for the disc 
set parameter, as in:

/usr/local/bin/bbstoreaccounts create 75AB23C 1 4096M 4505M
                                              ^
The disc set number --------------------------+

I have to confesss that I haven't actually done this myself, but I'm 
just about to add a second disc set to my box server. I will let you 
know if this doesn't work, but I think it should...

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Per

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