> The catalog backup always contains the whole database, so there should be no > need to keep old copies of it. Therefore, a pool with two volumes that > recycle frequently might work best, without using much more disk space. >
There is one reason for this. A few years ago I had my bacula database on a machine with a hardware problem. At one point my bacula database became corrupt but I did not find out for a week or so since backups merrily continued. When I detected the corruption a few weeks have passed. So when I went to recover the database I had to keep going back till I found a database that was good. The good thing is I retained the boot strap files otherwise this would have been very difficult. After finding the working database I recovered it on a new machine and then used the bacula tools to recover the missing records. I did that bu knowing which tapes were used in the period that the database had been corrupted. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
