Am Thursday 02 April 2009 22:13:41 schrieb John Drescher: > > File Retention = 30 days > > Job Retention = 6 months > > Volume Retention = 1 year > > Fine. After 30 days you will either only be able to do a full restore > or have to use bscan before restoring.
Correct. > > > Then am I correct in thinking that when I back up my catalog, I should > > only keep it for 6 months? > > Most likely a lot shorter than that. The point is you want to do a > catalog backup daily to protect you from database corruption or loss. > I am sure you will spot a problem before 6 months elapses. The longest > I have gone back was 1 week. That's weird. And I thought I had serious database issues! :) Of course I am running a daily db-backup, wouldn't want to live without it, but other than for a backup gone wrong I had never had to recover the bacula database in the last year and a half. Actually Ian should be able to happily restore jobs even after 11 months and some 30 days, because of his volume retention. If he actually has that many volumes to cycle through before having to recycle (and the volumes don't turn bad due to heavy sun or heat exposure or such a thing) he should still be able to run a bscan or even restore directly using a bootstrap file. No database involved here as far as I can tell. > > >My thinking being that the catalog itself contains 6 > > months of Job records and is 6 months old, so keeping it for any longer > > is meaningless. > > > > Also, is it bad practice to store the catalog backups along with the > > filesystem backups themselves? Same disks here, same tapes, same library. Seriously, if that SL500 downstairs explodes or something I will really have more serious problems than the catalog. As long as all the tapes are intact, I could probably lock myself in for a week and restore the catalog almost completely. > > I put that on a different server / array than the database. I used to run the catalog backups onto our bacula test environment. It's not fast, but it sure is somewhat "off-site" :) > > John Ronald > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ronald Buder Tel.: +49(351)440080 Fax: +49(351)4400818 Mobil: +49(179)3218366 Email: rbu...@proficom-ag.de web: www.proficom-ag.de profi.com AG business solutions Firmensitz: Stresemannplatz 3, 01309 Dresden Büro Berlin: Potsdamer Platz 11, 10785 Berlin Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 23438 Vorstand: Heiko Worm, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Friedrich Geise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
