I'd like to write catalog information to CD/DVD to accompany my tape
sets, which will be between 1 and 15 LT04 tapes. I'm using Postgres
for the Catalog. The idea is to make it easy for people to restore from
these tapes 10 years from now.

The idea is that someone can read the CD and learn about Bacula, learn
what files are on the LT04 tape set and restore the information readily.

I've thought of doing one of the following:

a.) create a bootstrap file
    
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Bootstrap_File.html#SECTION004720000000000000000

b.) dump the database contents for the job in human-readable CSV format

c.) dump a readily-loadable Postgres database for just this job using
pg_dump

The advantage of a.)  is that it can be fed to bextract to restore
files and the operator does not need to know anything else about bacula.
Unfortunately it does not provide a human readable listing of the files.
b.) does that, but is not readily usable for restores.
c.) is readily usable for restores (I think), but might need b.) before
someone knows how to proceed.

Other thoughts gratefully received!

Regards
Rory

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Rory Campbell-Lange
rory AT campbell-lange DOT net

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