Greetings!
Okay, for this message, I want to indicate what I have. I am
*thinking* that it will be possible for me to restore in the event of my
worst-case scenario: losing my (Fedora Core 4) Linux hard drive.
I have two computers. I know the manual says the easiest thing is to
restore from another computer. Right now, that just isn't going to be
possible for me.
(My second computer is a Sun Ultra 30. It has two Network Interface
Cards, and it is my Linux system's connection to the Internet. The Sun
computer is itself a router, and a mail host. [It checks once every five
minutes, and if either I or my mother have Internet/RoadRunner email
waiting, it transfers it to its hard drive and deletes it from the ISP.]
It has a small hard drive, and I don't even have all of Solaris 2.8
installed on it. I am planning on getting a larger hard drive, so that I
can at least have the windows stuff on it and a web browser, so that if
the Linux system is down [happens rarely, but it's been true a couple of
times in the last couple/few years], I can still access the web, etc.
However, even when I get a larger hard drive, and I could place MySQL and
bacula on it, it doesn't have USB ports. And, I backup to two independent
USB external hard drives.)
I was thinking that, if I lost a hard drive on my Linux system, I
could boot from a rescue CD (which I need to burn, I do not have it at the
moment!), and it could know about bacula. It could have my configuration
files, and know of my USB hard drives. I would replace the hard drive,
and boot from the rescue CD, and the USB hard drives, attached to the
Linux system and containing my information, could be restored that way.
Is that a valid thought/plan?
About a month and a half to two months ago, I worked on my
configuration files, and my backups have been going EXTREMELY WELL since!
I do a full backup the first Saturday/Tuesday of the month (to one or the
other USB hard drive), and a differential backup thereafter. I would like
to continue to use bacula.
I now need to finish, concluding I can use bacula and count on being
able to restore in the event of losing my hard drive.
If I am able to burn a CD that knows about bacula and would allow me
to boot my (Linux) system, and restore my hard drive from one or the other
USB hard drive, I think all would be okay.
And, I'd like people who are so much more experienced at bacula to
help me know that this is a valid plan.
If you need any information which I've not provided, please ask me,
and I'll gladly provide it. I didn't include the config.out and similar
information in this file, because this message isn't talking about a
specific configuration issue, etc., but is just general "bacula" talk.
Thank you!
Barry
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Barry L. Bond | http://home.cfl.rr.com/os9barry/
Software Engineer, ITT Industries | (My personal home web page, last
| updated February 17, 2005)
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