On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> ...  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. ...

Or email it off-site.  The bsr file of my catalog with over two million 
file-records is only a few kB of ascii.

> 2. Write an ASCII copy of the database to your tar file.

It doesn't have to be ASCII.  With a postgresql db, I use "pg_dump -F c" 
which saves in compressed format that can be restored with pg_restore.

Kel

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