On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, James Harper <james.har...@bendigoit.com.au> wrote: >> Regarding the disaster recovery, I have a suggestion for the bacula > team: >> >> Why not make the director write the bacula config files and any > relevant bsr >> files at the beginning of each tape? >> The space wasted on the tape to save these file would be very small. >> > > A script to email the bsr file to a gmail/Hotmail/whatever account would > suffice. It's not like the file contains any sensitive information.
Well, yeah, you could also rsync those files to any of the available online storage solutions (some of them free).... but, I think this breaks the point of "being able to recover from just the tape", or for instance: any storage (disks, for example)... Now, I wonder if any backup solution out-there allows you to do this... ie: recover from just backup media, you *always* need to get OS running again... so, there is no such thing as "bare metal" recovery. Unless you create something like an installer image that uses the backup to restore the machine... mmm.... maybe a "life-bacula"... that automatically rebuild the catalog from volumes... uh... is that possible? (automatically and completely rebuild catalog from volumes?). Ildefonso Camargo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
