On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:43:46 -0800 hendrik <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> I am running one instance using Bacula 2 and the other one using > Bacula 5. Is it possible to have parts of the Backup saved as .zip > (or any other format, that is good to handle)? > > I would like to separate parts of the backup and save them somewhere > else - in case of emergency. Yes and no. AFAIK, Bacula is not able to back up data to zip archives and neither does it support copy jobs which place data to them. But on the other hand, if you're backing into file volumes you're able to just zip the set of file volumes spanning the backup you'd like to preserve. Obviously, this will require a bit of scripting to gather the necessary data. I would recomment enabling generation of bootstrap recovery (BSR) files for your backup job and parsing those files after the job finished -- they have no-brainer plain-text format containing all the necessary information (obviously except that one contained in the catalog). So you could write a script which parses a BSR file and zips all the volumes which store the job's data plus the BSR file itself. This will enable you to later recover the data off that zip file using the `bextract` or `bscan` tool. A more advanced script would query the catalog and save a list of files backed up by the job to a file zipped along with the volumes. This could later be used to quickly extract a list of files to supply to `bextract`. Whether you need this or not depends on the nature of the data backed up: if you're likely to only need recovery of few files out of the whole set it might be a good idea to use this approach to skip the `bscan` step later. Otherwise you'll probably find using `bscan` + regular restoring using the Bacula console more convenient and then you do not need to save the list of backed up files along with the volumes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
