On 12/5/2013 12:16 AM, James Harper wrote: > I'm documenting the restore procedure for a customer site. For offsite media, > I am backing up the catalogue to the offsite media, and then purging the > records for that media from the catalog (so that subsequent virtualfull > backups don't try and use the offsite media as a source, which leads to all > sorts of confusion).
Why not just copy a SQL dump of the catalog to the offsite media? That would make restoring the catalog a more simple and straight forward process. > > There are several TB of onsite Bacula storage, which will cover 99% of > restore scenario's, but if a user did want a file that had fallen off the end > of the onsite storage and I needed to restore from archived media, I think > the procedure might go like: > > 1. bextract the catalogue from the offsite media (I save the bsr file too so > this should be quick) > 2. load the catalogue into a different mysql database (or sqlite3 maybe, with > an appropriate dump converter?) > 3. create a restore job that uses this new catalogue > 4. restore the file > > Is my idea of using a different restore job with a different catalogue to > what Bacula uses normally going to work? The config file appears to allow for > this but that doesn't mean it works in practice... > > Thanks > > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK > Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. > Download it for free now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
