> I just want to stress a point that John mentioned - the catalog data for a > given volume is never absolutely *required* to recover data from a volume. It > is just a huge convenience factor. When the worst case scenario happens, > though, and all you have to rebuild your infrastructure is a box full of tapes > and a corporate credit card, Bacula will let you get all of your data back > with a combination of bls, bextract, and bscan. It may be slower, but it'll > work. > Good point and this is a very good feature of bacula being that with these tools you should be able to extract data from earlier versions of bacula without the need of a database or to install the whole bacula package. This is one big reason why the tape format has remained constant for a long time (since bacula 1.27).
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