On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <
ildefonso.cama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
How about a special DR backup that dumps the database to the DR volume
along with the server's config and each defined client's config? The
volume would be a simple tarball you could store on a thumbdrive, tape,
cloud, whatever. When you do your bare metal restore of your systems, you
only need to retrieve that tarball. With it you should be able to
completely recreate your catalog and clients from this sucker with a
"drbacula" tool. As long as I don't have to cough for it, that should be a
pretty good basis for bare metal restores of servers and clients from a
live distro.
Eric
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