Re: [Bacula-users] Bootstrap file

Hello,

Basically bootstrap files permit rapid recovery of a particular backup (or in some cases a partial backup). It is a small ASCII file that gives the SD instructions for a restore.

Bootstrap files created in the working directory, should in most cases be automatically deleted by Bacula. In fact, on start up of the director, it will delete any bootstrap files (if I remember correctly) that it finds in the working directory.

However, if you are writing out bsr files with each backup (hopefully you are doing this particularly for your catalog backup), you will likely want to make those files available in the new director instance.

Best regards,
Kern

On 05/24/2014 11:52 AM, Florian Baumgartner wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if it is essential to move bootstrap files that have been created by bacula when moving the director? I have done some initial testing of moving my director to another host (and then restoring the sql catalog), which seemed to work just fine.

It's not clear to me what the role of the bootstrap file is now and whether it will break my restores not to have moved them along?

I'm running bacula 7.0.3

Cheers,
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bootstrap file - director move