Hello, I won't comment on your final arrangment, but let others on this list who are more knowledgable about these techniques answer.
However, for getting your catalog back. I suggest you avoid bscan if at all possible. It works, and it is reliable, but it is *slow*. You can always use it as a last resort. However, your main plan should restore the database by one of the two (of both) following ways: 1. Save the catalog with the standard Bacula job and script, but write a .bsr file, and write that bsr file to your tar tape. With the bsr file, you can either bextract directly from the volume, or create a dummy database with the database creation scripts, then use Bacula to restore from the bsr. 2. Write an ASCII copy of the database to your tar file. Regards, Kern On Friday 16 February 2007 18:02, Benjamin E. Zeller wrote: > Bacula 1.38.11 > > Dear list, > > > At first, my apologies for the length of this mail, I hope it will be read > anyway. > I am writing this eMail in hope of some help (as nearly everybode does ;-) > ). Our pilot is about to come to his end and customer is planning to spread > bacula systemwide. > > Before I finally can do that, I need to verify some things. To let you join > my thoughts, here comes the current setup: > > Testmachine running SuSE and Bacula 1.38.11 (was the most actual at time of > installation) and backing up some machines to HDD. > Everything works fine (if it wouldn't, there won't be the "master" plan ;-) > ). Every day, we do a tar to a single tape, containing the volumes of > bacula, the let's call them "tape-girlies" change the tape every day. > > For the final arrangement, there will be (beside the server with big > HDD-space) a tape-library. > > We do our tar to be able to react in case of big bang, e.g. server room > gets on fire. So we can set up a new server, get our bacula-configs back, > copy back the volumes from tape to hdd and use bscan to pump them back > inside the DB and get our data back. > > Naturally, customer wants the same possibilities with the new (and let's > say that not quite cheap) equipment. > > Long speech, sorry again. I guess here my questions start: > > I guess I can't use the library together with tar, so it would be time to > let bacula operate the tapes. > > But how can I achieve the scenario mentioned above? Will "MigrateJob" be my > guarding angel to bring the needed files to tape? As I said, tapes are to > be changed every day and taken offsite into the safe. > > So what we need: We need a possibility to restore from tapes from the day > before. > It that achievable with Bacula and if "yes", how? > How do ppl on this list use the libraries? > I prefer harddrive-backup, no question, but IMHO one needs a solution, if > server and/or harddrives cross river jordan. I am quite sure that I am not > the only one thinking about and having this problem so please enlighten > me :-) > > If my remarks are too confusing please be so kind and ask further. This is > a quite wellknown customer here in germany and I guess I'd be able to share > some experiences with a site like that. > > Kindly regards, > > Benni ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
