Hi List, I have a quistion about the correctness of the catalog given a certain moment. I have a somewhat different setup than most setups with it's pros and cons.
We are using a centralbackup server running Debian and Bacula 2.0.0. It has a huge diskspace. Besides that it is connected to a single slot tapedrive. The backup config consists of: All servers backup to this backupserver either through Bacula or rsync to two directories called /home/system/bacula_localstorage and /home/system/rsync_localstorage Also the calalogdump and the local system are stored in /home/system/bacula_storage so that in practice this dir contains 2 bacula backupfiles and a db dump of the catalog. After all jobs are executed to backup stuff from the LAN to these dirs another Bacula job is run to backup (not copy or clone to my regret) these two dirs to tape. We have single tapes (no autoloader) for monday-thursday which are recycled each week and 6 friday/week tapes. The rsync/bacula backups from servers to the backupserver run all 7 days of the week. Advantages: - network usage / backup time is limited - restores of data from the previous day is very quick Disadvantages: - we are making a backup of a backup, so no easy and quick file recovery can be issued when data older than a single day needs to be restored. - a lot of diskspace on the backupserver is needed - the catalog seems to be foobar when a bacula restore from tape is issued. This is my main issue. QUESTIONS 1. I understand that also in the latest release there is only a move of bacula-backup from one source (disk) to another (tape) source is supported but not a copy. Is this correct and will it be supported in the (near) future? 2. It seems I have to use tools like bscan etc. as if I was using a tape which is not in the catalogue. This seems a bit wierd as most files are not mutated, (re)moved, so for instance a "thursday-backup" from one week will be more or less the same as a "thursday-backup" from another week. Only the data on disk is mutated, the catalog will be the same after a restore from tape to the backupserver-disk. Yet the catalog for "thursday" shows up empty from bconsole. What am I doing wrong? Where is the flaw in my assumptions? Should I have restored the catalog as well? What should have been the correct procedure(s)? Besides this not so big issue I am quite fond of Bacula although it took quite some time to get things to work the way I wanted it. Thanking you in advance, Olaf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
