On Monday 16 January 2006 15:58, Barry L. Bond wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Another question, just to assure that I'm thinking/doing correctly.
>
> The description of the Job Resource Write Bootstrap capability says
> that the file specified should be a mounted drive on another machine, so
> that if your hard disk is lost, you will immediately have a bootstrap
> record available.
>
> My immediate thought is it would be idea to have it on the USB
> external hard drives (the SimpleTech, backup done on Saturdays, or Western
> Digital, backup done on Tuesdays). If I were to lose a hard drive on my
> Linux system, I would be restoring from one or the other USB device. The
> backup itself would be there, so I would think that would be the ideal
> place to have this bootstrap file.
>
> I currently have 'Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/working/Client1.bsr"'
> in my two (main) Job Resources. So, would this be
> /media/simpletech/Client1.bsr (for the SimpleTech drive) and/or
> /media/wd/Client1.bsr (for the Western Digital drive)?
>
> And, I guess I could have "barrycon" for Client1, because that is my
> client name.
>
> Is this the correct idea?
I see no problem to write these files to your USB devices. Please note, that
you should write a bootstrap file for your catalog backup AND a bootstrap
file (with a different name, of course) for your main backup. With the main
backup bootstrap file, you can recover your whole system without first
restoring your database (if your server goes down, you will need at least a
dummy database to be able to start the restore job).
Also, you probably should copy your server's bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf
and bacula-fd.conf files to your USB drives. That makes it a bit easier to
get back your configuration if necessary ...
All these ideas an a lot more are in the Rescue chapter (and some in the
Restore) chapter of the current online manual.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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