On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Kel Raywood wrote: > I think that the archive is intended to be used in cases of a complete > disaster of the backup system. i.e. the catalog is lost and you have > to rebuild it from the archive tapes. In that case, I can think of a > couple of reasons why it would be useful to have archive records removed > from the catalog. > > (a) So that the next partial backup (incremental/differential) is not > affected by the archive. ie. regular backups proceed normally. > > (b) A normal restore to a client would come from the backup tapes which > are presumed more easily accessible than archive tapes which might be > taken offsite.
Very slick! Any chance I could convince you to do a slightly more detailed writeup on the wiki? =) http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=sample_configs -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
