Hi, 16.10.2009 18:45, Nicola Quargentan wrote: > Bob Hetzel ha scritto: ... >> Forget about trying to keep straight which tape is for which day and let >> bacula track that for you. When you need to do a restore, let bacula >> tell you which volumes that data is on. > > I'm not fully persuased about bacula. I fear that the database (MySQL) > become corrupted.
In all the years I use Bacula at several locations I haven't seen such a case (unless I broke it myself, manually, and knowing the risk I ran :-) , so I believe you don't have to be afraid of that. Furthermore, once you have more than a really small number of backup jobs, backups you keep, clients, and media, you need some way to track all of that. Bacula's database catalog is, compared to most of the other solutions I had to suffer, astonishingly robust. Furthermore, you can do as many dumps of it as you like. And any manual way of managing that information is, in my opinion, doomed to fail - I recall when I was using tar and lots of post-its on the tapes, and then tar plus some script resulting in printouts of the backup information... unmaintainable is a polite word to describe that. In short, the catalog *any* serious backup solution provides is essential, and you've simply got to trust it. Bacula's catalog is one of the more robust versions of such a catalog, and thus it's unlikely any alternative will work more considerably reliable. Arno > > cut... > Thanks. > > Nicola Quargentan > > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
