On Thursday 20 April 2006 18:26, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After a loss of my director machine earlier this week (someone "thought"
> the rootdisks were mirrored -- no such luck), I have decided that
> bacula_rescue is probably the way to go. We had no UFS dump or anything
> like that, so we just happened to be lucky that an older copy of Solaris
> 9 was still on the box somewhere. The box is the director for my Bacula
> backups, but the machine itself is backed up by our datacentre, which
> uses HP's Data Protector. I'm not sure whether I will endeavor to change
> this or not, but at the very least the rescue could get me going either
> way I decide to go.
>
> I see that there is a make_static_bacula script in the directory, but it
> occurred to me that this is not going to be enough if I don't have a
> director to use for the restore. Can someone point me in the right
> direction for my attempt to do this? Would I just modify the scripts to
> build the whole package static so that I have it for my restore?
>
> Thanks for any assistance that you can provide.
To give an appropriate answer, you will need to be a bit more specific about
what was knocked out in your loss (i.e. DIR, SD, database, ...) and exactly
how you want to recover. On how you want to recover, I mean: on the same
machine with a new harddisk, elsewhere, ...
IMO, the simplest and quickest way to get a Bacula server back up is first to
have a Bacula rescue disk, or perhaps the new Knoppix remastered disk that
includes the Bacula rescue files, AND a separate machine where you can at
least temporarily bring up a Director, SD, and a database. With the DIR, SD
and a database on a separate machine, you can then repair or recreate your
hardisk partitioning, load up a static FD, and restore everything ... If I
lost my Bacula server that is what I would do. I always have a "hot spare"
with a SCSI card, and my Bacula conf files waiting for the time when my
backup server totally dies -- hopefully this will never happen.
In most companies, the cost of having a "hot spare" is about $300 for a second
SCSI card, and maximum 100 MB of disk space holding Bacula and a dummy
catalog database. At the time of a problem you will need sufficient extra
disk space to handle the full Bacula catalog.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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