On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:37 PM, jackbroni
<bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> Doesn't backing up the catalog into a Bacula Pool of volumes defeat the 
> purpose as it would be inconvenient to retrieve the catalog in the case of 
> failure?
>
> Sure it could be useful to have a catalog snapshow, but in the event of 
> failure perhaps it would be useful to store just a synced version of the 
> catalog in a different location.

I put catalog backup in a catalog pool that has 2GB (or so) disk based
volumes so in my case at max 2 catalog backups will be on a single
volume. I guess I could also have done a use volume once but in my 10+
years of using bacula I have only needed to recover the catalog 1
time.

John

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