On Friday 18 March 2005 21:39, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello. > > Brennon Church wrote: > > It sounds like the clone functionality would be perfect for what I'm > > looking for. Any estimate on when 1.37 is expected to release? > > 1.37 is the developing version - it's available via cvs, but unless > you're ready to spend some time on bug-hunting and getting it working > you should seriously think about using this as a production backup > program. Basically, you never can be sure that it does what you want. > > Although, reading the devel-list, it seems to work ok, but not all > features are implemented or documented. > > You probably best subscribe the developers list to follow its progress - > I'm not sure job cloning is already implemented.
Yes. See ReleaseNotes -> New Directives -> Run > When it is, testers will be very welcome :-) Definitely! :-) > > >>The problem here is that with the currently released version 1.36.2, you > >> can backup to two different media types as Arno indicates below, but you > >> cannot do restores from two different media types without manually > >> editing the bsr file. At one time I posted a document on how to do so, > >> but it is not a recommended configuration. If all goes well version 1.37 > >> will resolve this problem, but it is not yet a reality. > > > > Do you still have that document anywhere? If it hasn't changed much, > > perhaps I could still use it for my situation? > > It's rather simple when you think about it... > > You start your restore job from the console, set everything up, and when > all is ok, before saying "yes" to start the job, you edit the bootstrap > file: (The following assumes that full backups go to media A and > differential and incremental ones to B - I've got it like this, and you > think about that, too...) > Save the bootstrap file, > Copy it to a second one, > In the first one, remove all references to media type B, so this only > restores the full backup. > Replace the bootstrap file the director created with this edited version. > Let the job start. > (Hope everything goes well) > In the second copy, you remove all references to modia type B, this > restores the diff and incr backups. > After the full backup is restored, start another restore job. > This time, you set up client, where etc. as before, but slip the second > edited bootstrap file in the place of the one the director created. > > I guess you understand what to do for more than two media types. > > Things might get interesting if you mix different incremental backups > onto different media types... I wouldn't try that :-) > > Well, I did this procedure once (to test my setup) and it worked. It's > more work than only clicking the mouse on Ok, but much less work than > using tar or dd... and it uses my media and devices quite reasonable. > > Arno > > > Thanks. > > > > --Brennon > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
