Due to disk layout on my system, I have the DB dump stored elsewhere on my
server, and I changed the catalog backup to not delete the DB dump.
Assuming some kind of less catastrophic crash, my hope would be to restore
the DB from the on-disk copy. I maintain the DB dump, bootstrap files and
'important' non-tape backups on a separate physical disk in my system.
Another perhaps interesting step that I took to give me more options after
a crash was to write a script to more intelligently handle bootstrap files
(i.e. eliminate unnecessary backup records when differential backups are
used) and to copy them to a remote server I have access to via ssh. I can
share my script if there is interest, it is only about 70 lines of python
code--I haven't checked, but perhaps bacula has been changed to better
handle differentials when writing bootstrap files natively.
-se
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay+bac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Alan McKay
> <alan.mckay+bac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql"
>
> I went looking for this file out of curiousity, and found it was not there.
>
> But upon further digging, it looks like the script dumps the DB, then
> backs it up, then removes that file.
>
> Do I have that right?
>
> And further, before creating the file in the first place it removes
> one that may already be there, by the looks of it.
>
> Just making sure I got that right. Is there a reason not to leave the
> file there until next time? Just a space issue?
>
>
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