Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 03/09/2010 12:28 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, C M Reinehr wrote: >> On Tue 09 March 2010 12:19:40 pm John Drescher wrote: >>> >I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr >>> > files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Also useful in disaster recovery when you do not have the database up >>and running. > > I chuckled at backing these up myself, it's a rather circular dependency:) > If you back those up, when you need them to alleviate the use of a certain

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Also useful in disaster recovery when you do not have the database up >and running. I chuckled at backing these up myself, it's a rather circular dependency:) If you back those up, when you need them to alleviate the use of a certain tool when your catalog dies, you need to use that very tool to

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread C M Reinehr
On Tue 09 March 2010 01:28:37 pm John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, C M Reinehr wrote: > > On Tue 09 March 2010 12:19:40 pm John Drescher wrote: > >> >        I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the > >> > .bsr files myself but mine is a small business so I

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, C M Reinehr wrote: > On Tue 09 March 2010 12:19:40 pm John Drescher wrote: >> >        I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr >> > files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with >> > much larger, enterprise system

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread C M Reinehr
On Tue 09 March 2010 12:19:40 pm John Drescher wrote: > >        I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr > > files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with > > much larger, enterprise systems. They're small and are no trouble to back > > up, so I

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
>        I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr files > myself > but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with much larger, > enterprise systems. They're small and are no trouble to back up, so I keep > them against the possibility that I might really need

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread C M Reinehr
Stuart, I don't have the experience with or knowledge of Bacula that many others on the list have but I think I can answer your questions: On Tue 09 March 2010 09:52:00 am Stuart McGraw wrote: > I asked this last week but no responses... > > Anyone? > > I am new at Bacula and am trying to work o

[Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread Stuart McGraw
I asked this last week but no responses... Anyone? I am new at Bacula and am trying to work out a ] reasonable scheme for backing up my home network. I had some questions I hope someone can answer... 1) Sometimes my Bacula server machine is down at the scheduled backup time. No problem, I ju