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Re: [Bacula-users] What happen when a server crash?

2012-05-22 13:52:20
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What happen when a server crash?
From: Jérôme Blion <jerome.blion AT free DOT fr>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:50:07 +0200
Le 22/05/2012 19:33, Martin Simmons a écrit :
>>>>>> On Mon, 21 May 2012 15:24:14 -0300, Luis Marcelo Achite said:
>> Hi,
>> I´m facing a bad situation related with a server crashed. After a power
>> outage, my server did not return back and I need to receover a partition
>> from a backup. Bacula server is installed on this server, so I dont have
>> access to the console to restore the backup. So, my question is: How can
>> I recover a backup in a computer that is not working anymore? I suppose
>> I need to install again the OS on that server, then install Backup from
>> scratch and restore the catalogue. As soon as I have the catalogue
>> recovered it will be possible to restore files. Am I correct with this
>> thinking? Some of you have a better suggestion for this problem?
> Yes, that's correct.  You could make the "from scratch" part easier by keeping
> a safe copy of Bacula's config files so you don't have to remember how they
> were edited from the defaults.  You could also keep a copy of the bsr file
> created by the catalog backup to make it easier to restore that.
>
> __Martin
>

Hello,

You should first try to boot on a rescue system (live CD or something 
like that) to see wether filesystems can be mounted.
If they can be mounted, you have a chance to recover configuration files 
and so be able to restore your bacula quickly.

Anyway, I copy /var/lib/bacula and /etc/bacula to another machine to 
prevent this kind of issues.

HTH.
Jérôme Blion.

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