> Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the
> best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was
> not very clear to me.
>
> If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and
> I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I recover the data?
>
> Can I restore the catalog to the new server?
>

Yes.

>
> Should I just virtualize my bacula server and keep a copy offsite for a
> quick restore of the catalog?

That is an option.

>
> Is there a way to recover the data without the catalog? Can bacula reindex
> the files?

Yes. bscan

>
> Do I also have to export the mysql database nightly so I can recover the
> content along with my bacula catalog, system files, and backups?
>

I do a catalog backup nightly to a disk volume (which is not on the
same server as the database) containing only catalogs. I also write a
bootstrap file for this so that I can manually recover the catalog I
want. You could do this outside of bacula with a nightly myswldump as
well. Remember to always keep a few catalogs. At one point over the 7+
years I have used bacula at work I corrupted my database and did not
know for 2 weeks..


John

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