Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works
2013-12-20 13:28:32
On 2013-12-20 01:19 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>> Read
>> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Restore_Command.html
>>
>> 'If a Job's file records have been pruned from the catalog, the
>> restore
>> command will be unable to find any files to restore. Bacula will ask
>> if
>> you want to restore all of them or if you want to use a regular
>> expression to restore only a selection while reading media. See
>> FileRegex optionFileRegex and below for more details on this.'
>
> That pretty much implies that it *is* possible to restore files for
> which there are no more file records in the catalog. And that is a VERY
> good thing. I would hate to have all my backup data become useless due
> to a database crash (yes, I do back up my database outside of Bacula
> just in case, but still...)
Keep in mind that without the DB you cannot find jobid values... nor
know what volumes they are on.
Dump your database daily.
Copy the dump, along with all .conf and .bsr files, to multiple
locations.
Just in case.
--
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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