On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Josh Fisher <jfisher AT pvct DOT com> wrote:
>
> Mgr. Martin Fabus( wrote:
>>>> What do I do with the catalog? Does this remain as it is, i.e. just one
>>>> catalog for all the jobs and all the pools, do I use one of the new ones
>>>> (full1, etc), or do I keep the default pool?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> It is enough to have 1 job for the catalog, but you will have to use
>> different schedule, which would specify to backup the catalog on even
>> pool on even weeks and odd pool on odd weeks.
>>
>>
>
> Yes. The catalog backups are always full backups, so they just need to
> be in both pools. The tricky part is that the catalog backup be the last
> job on a drive when that drive is unmounted. But that can be
> accomplished with job priorities to force all other jobs to run before
> the catalog backup. Basically, you don't want any backups on the drive
> that are newer than the catalog backup.
>

Also with a catalog backup I highly recommend you keep the bootstrap
file. Without that restoring the last catalog backup on the volume may
be difficult. At least it was for me the 1 time (in over 5 years of
bacula) I needed to restore the catalog backup 2 years ago.

John

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