On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Josh Fisher <jfis...@pvct.com> wrote: > > Mgr. Martin Fabus( wrote: >>>> What do I do with the catalog? Does this remain as it is, i.e. just one >>>> catalog for all the jobs and all the pools, do I use one of the new ones >>>> (full1, etc), or do I keep the default pool? >>>> >>>> >> >> It is enough to have 1 job for the catalog, but you will have to use >> different schedule, which would specify to backup the catalog on even >> pool on even weeks and odd pool on odd weeks. >> >> > > Yes. The catalog backups are always full backups, so they just need to > be in both pools. The tricky part is that the catalog backup be the last > job on a drive when that drive is unmounted. But that can be > accomplished with job priorities to force all other jobs to run before > the catalog backup. Basically, you don't want any backups on the drive > that are newer than the catalog backup. >
Also with a catalog backup I highly recommend you keep the bootstrap file. Without that restoring the last catalog backup on the volume may be difficult. At least it was for me the 1 time (in over 5 years of bacula) I needed to restore the catalog backup 2 years ago. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
