> if your host with bacula catalog database dies, you really wan't to have > a catalog backup. re-creating the catalog from the tapes/disk isn't > really a fun task (if you have lot's of tapes and/or lots of data it will > be a pain-in-the-ass job). you will be _much_ faster restoring it from a > dump. > > if you don't backup it regularly with your jobs, i recommend at least to > have a copy on another computer. > > what are your motives to not make backups of your catalog? >
I think he wasn't going to not-to-do-any-backup, but the question actually was if it is better to backup the catalog dump as a regular Bacula backup (as in default conf) or simply dump it to another system. If doing both of them isn't an option, I would choose to back the catalog to another computer, that is in a different physical location. But the bottom line is to have a catalog backup that really can be restored, and is as safe as the actual backup media. So, making catalog backup only to another computer located in the same room or cabinet with the original one obviously is not a good choice if it is desirable to recover something from the properly saved other media after a fire or sabotage. Another thing to remember: though conf files are not impossible to set up from a scratch again, it propably will save lot of valuable time during a distaster recovery (or even after an accidental deletion of a conf file) if also all the conf files of the Bacula daemons are backed up to somewhere (together with the catalog dump) where they are available without a working install of Bacula. In other words, if they are stored somewhere outside of the Bacula-accessible-only backup media. Regards, Timo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
