Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

2012-09-25 13:40:53
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test
From: Josh Fisher <jfisher AT pvct DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:38:29 -0400
On 9/25/2012 12:39 PM, lst_hoe02 AT kwsoft DOT de wrote:
> Zitat von dweimer <dweimer AT dweimer DOT net>:
>
>> ...
>>
>> Here's where things go a little wrong, I mount my external backup drive
>> to the test server, launch bconsole, and issue the status command for
>> the client, since I restored the state files, I can see the job ID of my
>> last catalog Backup.  Then issue the run command, select restore, enter
>> the job ID when prompted, and select mod, enter the bootstrap file from
>> the catalog backup and start the job.
> Hello
>
> I have myself not fully tested disaster recovery but as far as i know
> you need a valid bootstrap from your catalog (database) backup. With
> this you can first recover the catalog backup (ASCII dump) and then
> use the tools provided for you database to import this dump. After
> that you are up and running to restore from your volumes. If you don't
> have a recent catalog backup you might use "bscan" to create needed
> records by scanning your volumes.

I find it much easier to just manually save a bzip'd copy of the sql 
dump file. A daily admin job copies the sql dump file via NFS to another 
server and is used to restore the database in the even that the server 
running bacula-dir dies. For a true disaster resulting in the loss of 
all servers, I manually backup a copy of the sql dump file that gets 
stored along with the offsite backup media in a bank safe deposit box.


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