Hi all, I've been using Bacula on our FreeBSD servers for less than half of this year and it has worked quite well. It occurred to me that I should brush up on the Bacula recovery process and in the process of reading I find I am not quite clear as to what I need to do in order to restore a Bacula server. I need to document the restore process as clearly as possible.
I'm looking at this section (Here's the link (http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#SECTION0003612 000000000000000) as follows: "If you have a valid saved Bootstrap file as created for your damaged machine with WriteBootstrap, use it to restore the files to the damaged machine, where you have loaded a static Bacula File daemon using the Bacula Rescue disk). This is done by using the restore command and at the yes/mod/no prompt, selecting mod then specifying the path to the bootstrap file." It seems that I am to restore a valid saved bootstrap file for the damaged machine. I am unsure to which machine the bootstrap file is to go. Is it to the damaged server or to the new machine? If I interpret it correctly, the bootstrap file should be restored to the new server. I then need to run the static bacula-fd on the damaged machine to be recovered. The static bacula-fd then will restore data from either an attached tape drive or an external HD on the new server using the catalog on the new bacula server. Once the damaged machine has restored its files, it can be rebooted and then be its old self (assuming the necessary files have been properly backed up and restored). Am I on the right track as far as restoring a Bacula server is concerned? In the above particular case, the bootstrap file is the BackupCatalog.bsr? Not the bootstrap file for the client (i.e. Aries.bsr)? ~Doug ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
