John Drescher napsal(a):
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Radek Hladik <radek AT eadresa DOT cz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>        I would like to ask how should I recycle catalog backups.
>> I am using disk based storage and catalog pool is by default set to
>> half-year or so long retention period. I would think, that week would be
>>  more than sufficient.
>> What is old catalog backup good for? I mean if I have catalog backup
>> older that data backup I would need to run bscan from scratch. Otherwise
>> more recent data would not be recognized by Bacula and on the other hand
>> there may be data in catalog which are not in data backups any more...
>>
> 
> I do not keep more than a month or so. However the server I have them
> on is not were my regular backups go so I have tons of space there.
> 
> John

I have no problem with backing up catalog on other server with less 
expensive storage space. But I do not see any use of old catalog backups 
at all. I would do "bscan into new catalog" in all cases except the one, 
where I have catalog backup newer than last data backed up and I need to 
recover it. I.e. database server crash or something like that. In all 
other cases I would not risk the possible complications...

Radek

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