In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > This raised a question for me: how many catalog backups should I keep?
Enough to cover all the history you need to keep. The question is, how long you want to be able to go backward in time. Remeber that backups are not only to keep you from osing files due to disk crashes etc., but also due to user errors like deleting vitally important files every now and then. > My guess is that we don't really need to keep a large number of > catalog backups, since frankly they'd be obsolete once the next > catalog backup is written. At the current moment I have my catalog This is only true if you don't want to be able to locate older files that may have disappeared in the meantime for one reason or another. > I'm curious as to what the general consensus among the Bacula user > community is, regarding this subject. I saw a post from Arno from last I frequently find myself in the position that I need to restore some file which is not listed any more in the catalog. I am usually pretty happy then to be able to restore a N months old copy so I need only two steps. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember that Beethoven wrote his first symphony in C ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
