So if I take a backup of MySql and I have the configuration files and the
volumes of the data, I could simple export mysql database to a new server,
install bacula and use the backed up conf files and put the volumes in the
same configured location, that would make me up and running?





Wassim C. Zaarour
Systems & Network Engineer








On 3/2/12 3:11 PM, "Thomas Mueller" <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> wrote:

>Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:02:23 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour:
>
>> Hi List,
>> 
>> We are backing up to disks not tapes, now I need to set up a plan in
>> case the bacula server (director) crashes.
>> What to do in case the MySQL catalog is lost? Can we recover? I guess it
>> is easy to keep copy of configuration files to install on a new system
>> but what about the catalog?
>> 
>> What is the best plan for the server's disaster recovery?
>> Thanks.
>
>
>
>if the catalog has gone away and no sql dump is available you could use
>bscan to repopulate the catalog. but it will take a looooooong time if
>you have lots of tapes. And IMHO not all information is restored. Last
>time I was force to use bscan the restore from the tape did read the
>whole tape to restore some files instead of jumping directly to the right
>place.
>
>better you backup your bacula configs and catalog dump somewhere easyly
>accessible (another server (in another building), Amazon S3, whatever) to
>do a fast recovery of the bacula backup service.
>
>- Thomas
>
>
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