Re: How do you access different devices on an SD?

Marco Gaiarin <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:15:46 +0100

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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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