File Driver

As already mentioned, it is possible to use the keyword File on the Driver directive of the Cloud resource. Instead of writing to the Cloud, Bacula will instead create a Cloud Volume but write it to disk. The rest of this section applies to the Cloud resource directives when the File driver is specified.

The File driver is mostly used for testing purposes.

However, if you have a particularly slow backup device you might want to stage your backup data into an SSD or disk using the local cache feature of the Cloud device, and have your Volumes transferred in the background to a slow File device.

The following Cloud directives are ignored: Bucket Name, Access Key, Secret Key, Protocol, Uri Style. The directives Truncate Cache and Upload work on the local cache in the same manner as they would for a Cloud.

Host Name, specifies the local destination directory for the Cloud Volume files, and this Host Name must be different from the Archive Device name, or there will be a conflict between the local cache (in the Archive Device directory) and the destination Cloud Volumes (in the Host Name directory).