Hello Michael: bacula director client stock fileset exlude is a good starting
point if you want to restore a full linux box (/tmp, /proc, /.journal etc.).
Already did full restores this way.
Regards,
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Em 27 de jan de 2016 20:17, pelo 20:17, Michael Munger
<mich...@highpoweredhelp.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.
>
>Michael Munger, dCAP, MCPS, MCNPS, MBSS
>High Powered Help, Inc.
>Microsoft Certified Professional
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>mich...@highpoweredhelp.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dimitri Maziuk [mailto:dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:02 PM
>To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.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
>--
>Dimitri Maziuk
>Programmer/sysadmin
>BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
>
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