Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 25/01/2013 20:09, John Drescher a écrit : >> And further, before creating the file in the first place it removes >> one that may already be there, by the looks of it. >> >> Just making sure I got that right. Is there a reason not to leave the >> file there until next time? Just a space issue?

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread Dan Langille
On Jan 25, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > Seems to make sense to me since the catalog backup is already > happening, but maybe this is a bad idea for some reason? > > If it is OK to do that, are there any others I should add? > > FileSet { > Name = "Catalog" > Include { >Options {

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread John Drescher
> You could of course opt to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the file on disk > before backing it up; for these sql files it will manage a very significant > comression ratio. > I do have gzip enabled for that and it compresses down to somewhere between 2 and 4GB. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Ellis
Due to disk layout on my system, I have the DB dump stored elsewhere on my server, and I changed the catalog backup to not delete the DB dump. Assuming some kind of less catastrophic crash, my hope would be to restore the DB from the on-disk copy. I maintain the DB dump, bootstrap files and 'impo

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Alan McKay > wrote: >> File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql" > > I went looking for this file out of curiousity, and found it was not there. > > But upon further digging, it looks like the script dumps the DB

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql" I went looking for this file out of curiousity, and found it was not there. But upon further digging, it looks like the script dumps the DB, then backs it up, then removes that file. Do I have that rig

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread John Drescher
> Seems to make sense to me since the catalog backup is already > happening, but maybe this is a bad idea for some reason? > > If it is OK to do that, are there any others I should add? > > FileSet { > Name = "Catalog" > Include { > Options { > signature = MD5 > } > File = "/v

[Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread Alan McKay
Seems to make sense to me since the catalog backup is already happening, but maybe this is a bad idea for some reason? If it is OK to do that, are there any others I should add? FileSet { Name = "Catalog" Include { Options { signature = MD5 } File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.s