>> Thanks you Jesse for the feedback.
>> 
>> Regarding the disaster recovery, I have a suggestion for the bacula
>> team:
>> 
>> Why not make the director write the bacula config files and any
>> relevant bsr files at the beginning of each tape? The space wasted on
>> the tape to save these file would be very small.

>Well, the first problem here is that the Director would have to know how
>much space it was going to need for BSR files.  Of course, it could
>pre-allocate a fixed-size block of, say, 1MB for BSR files.

Agree, 1 MB is basically nothing on a tape and it can accommodate easily a huge 
amount of bsr files.
My /etc/bacula is 88k uncompressed.  

>The second problem, it seems to me, is that this would break
>compatibility with all older Bacula volumes and installations.

not necessarily if you make this information at the beginning of the tape look 
like a "volume file".
It will be ignored by old directors because it will look the same as a failed 
job that took space on the tape.  


Pablo

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