On 06/22/10 21:16, James Harper wrote:
>>
>> I have a system currently being backed up and I'd like to daily
> perform a
>> restore of it's backup to a shadow system (think warm-standby).
>>
>> While I guess I could rsync the appropriate dirs between the systems,
> is
>> there a way I could leverage this through a restore?
>>
>
> You can pipe commands directly into bconsole, eg:
>
> bconsole <<EOF
> restore client=target-fd
> 5
> mark *
> done
> yes
> EOF
>
> The '5' is the 'Select most recent backup for a client' option. If you
> knew the jobid you could just put that in the restore command eg
> 'restore jobid=12345 client=target-fd' but if you want to restore the
> latest backup then you'll need to use the former approach.
>
> You could also issue a 'wait' command after you start the restore but I
> think you'd need to know the jobid of the job you just started for that
> to be useful, and getting that might be hard.
>
> There may be a better way of scripting bacula too, but the above is what
> I use when I'm just testing.
However, if your purpose is simply to mirror, rather than to continually
test the latest backup, then it's probably considerably more *efficient*
to use rsync. In fact, *unless* you want to do the daily restore as a
test to make sure the backups are good, you might want to consider
mirroring the live machine to the warm standby with rsync, then backing
up the warm standby.
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