Author: Michael Munger <michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:42:30 +0000
TLDR; = what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux server and still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? Details: I am looking for a best practice here, and I am work
Author: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:01:43 -0600
server and still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? Not an answer to your question, but we are - using raid-1s for system disks, - using SSDs for system disks, - dd'ing the system
Author: Michael Munger <michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:02:31 +0000
Having setup and just tested, I ran into the "will not descend into different file systems" issue as mentioned in this post: http://bacula.10910.n7.nabble.com/Will-not-descend-from-into-dev-td57408.h
Author: Michael Munger <michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:15:52 +0000
Your answer is appreciated. And, I was trying to keep my question limited to what I wanted to know, but you bring up a good point: bacula is only part of the strategy. These systems are cloned with C
be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? I would think with bare metal recovery you couldn't afford to exclude anything. As for myself, I tend to replace the failed part and install fr
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Author: Michael Munger <michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:44:42 -0500
Good reminder. I am using a ClientBeforerunJob script to dump all the databases to .sql files before backing up. -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile
Author: Heitor Faria <heitor AT bacula.com DOT br>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:44:50 -0200
Hello Michael: bacula director client stock fileset exlude is a good starting point if you want to restore a full linux box (/tmp, /proc, /.journal etc.). Already did full restores this way. Regards,
Author: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:15:09 GMT
Beware that including both / and /bin/ will save two copies of /bin/ (assuming it is on the same filesystem as /). The article actually suggests explicitly listing each filesystem, not each directory
Author: Randy Katz <rkatz AT simplicityhosting DOT com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 18:19:04 -0800
Is this list complete? What about stuff in /usr/local for example? And /var ? -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances
Author: "Gary R. Schmidt" <grs AT mcleod-schmidt.id DOT au>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:13:01 +1100
By definition, /usr/local (or, more standards-like, opt/local) is yours, no-one else knows what is in it, and whether it should be included. Frex, I have squid installed in /opt/local on one machine,