Hi, 07.08.2007 11:39,, Mike Follwerk - T²BF wrote:: > Radek Hladik schrieb: >> Till now I came up with this ideas: >> * Backup catalog and bootstrap files with the data >> * Disable jobs/files/volumes autopruning >> * maybe modify some livecd to contain current version of bacula or at >> least bscan (do not know, maybe such a CD exists) >> * Create SQL query to list which jobs is on which tape and print it on >> the paper with the tapes >> >> Do you think this is enough or am I overseeing something?
I didn't actually read your original mail, but going from the subject, this sounds good already. Having the job lists on paper is definitely helpful sometimes, but I'd mainly make sure to know where the current catalog dump is stored, though. The catalog has all the information you will need, readily accessible by Bacula. If you only have your printout, you'll probably need some time for bscanning, but bextracting the catalog dump, loading it and starting Bacula itself might be faster. > since no one has answered this yet, I feel free to voice a blind guess: > doesn't bacula have some kind of "archive" flag for volumes for > precisely this reason? I seem to remember something like that from the > documentation. Well, the something includes a "not implemented" remark, unfortunately :-) But you don't really need that, anyway: Just make sure your long term volumes are not automatically pruned and you're already half the way where you want to go... the other half of the way is usually deciding if you need complete file lists for your archives (then you probably want to set up separate job and client entries for these, so you can have different retention times for normal production backups) or if the fact that the data exists and on which volumes it's stored is enough (Then just make sure the jobs are not pruned from the catalog). For real long-term storage, you'll have to find ways to move data to new tapes from time to time, probably keeping the catalog up to date, and so on, so that you can restore when the original tapes can't any longer be read. Migration might be helpful for this, but that's a different story... Arno > Regards > Mike Follwerk > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
