Em 27 de jan de 2016, pelo 20:17, Michael Munger <michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com> escrito:

Your answer is appreciated. And, I was trying to keep my question limited to what I wanted to know, but you bring up a good point: bacula is only part of the strategy. These systems are cloned with Clonezilla, the image of which sits on the shelf as a base. We use RAID 5/6/10 depending on how critical the machine is to slow the impact of a disk failure.

So, the restoration process would actually go: restore from clonezilla image, then restore from bacula.

But, I would prefer that bacula was as complete as possible in case there was an issue with the original image.

None of these machines are SSDs because SSDs fail instantly and catastrophically. And while the speed is sexy, the way they fail is ... not. But, that's neither here nor there. Just a personal choice for me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitri Maziuk [mailto:dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:02 PM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

On 01/27/2016 03:42 PM, Michael Munger wrote:
 TLDR; = what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux
server and still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster?

Not an answer to your question, but we are
- using raid-1s for system disks,
- using SSDs for system disks,
- dd'ing the system disk before the machine goes into service and keeping the copy on the shelf,
- backing up /etc and crontabs and not caring about the rest of /.

I'll pick any of the above over a bare metal recovery from a backup system (SSD being the best option ATM).

FWIW
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Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu



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