How many time you have to store that DVD?
Set a correct retention period for the volumes, ad use volumes with the
DVD's size..
Whan the jobs 'close' the volumes you can burn it on DVD and remove them
from the HD.
When you need to restore the data you need only to copy from the DVD to disk
the correct volumes.
Your db will grow since the retention period and than it will be
'purged/pruned' from the catalog..
2010/8/2 Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net>
> On 08/01/10 19:46, john fish wrote:
> > But I am doing full (monthly) and incremental (daily) backups and they
> > are all over volumes.
> > Plus when I write volume(s) to DVD dont I need bootstrap files and mysql
> > data to restore?
>
> Not necessarily, no. You certainly don't need to save bootstrap files;
> they are generated at restore time. Having the catalog data is not
> necessary either, as it can be reloaded into the database via bscan; but
> bscan can take a while. You could include a catalog dump with each
> dataset, but there is no specific provision in Bacula to take an
> external catalog dump and cleanly merge it into the running catalog.
> I've never tried doing so manually myself, and could not vouch for the
> safety of such a process. If you were going to do that, the SAFE way
> would be to extract the catalog dump to a new location, stop Bacula,
> restart it pointing at the alternate catalog, then perform your restore.
> Whether this is feasible is going to obviously be hihgly dependent upon
> how busy your Bacula installation is.
>
> You COULD, of course, hypothetically speaking, run a second Director
> specifically to do such restores, starting it up only when needed.
>
>
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