On 12/11/12 19:44, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>> On 12/11/12 16:47, ccspro wrote:
>>> And make sure your Catalog backup has the lowest priority (say 99) so
>>> it will be completed after all Jobs are done for the day.
>>
>> Personally, I don't bother with a catalog backup job separate from my DB
>> backups, since my Bacula catalog is by far the largest schema in my DB
>> anyway (96% of both total application data and total application data
>> rows).  I just back up the DB last and have redundant, replicated DB
>> servers.
> 
> I dump my DB to a plain text file daily.  I then rsync that file, and the 
> *.conf
> files to three others servers.  Two offsite, one on-site.

Yup.  Dump the DB to text that's retained for 15 days, back up the dumps
directory, compress and archive offsite.

Including the Bacula .conf files with the DB dumps is a good idea
though.  I'll have to add that to my system.


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