>> Thanks you Jesse for the feedback. >> >> Regarding the disaster recovery, I have a suggestion for the bacula >> team: >> >> Why not make the director write the bacula config files and any >> relevant bsr files at the beginning of each tape? The space wasted on >> the tape to save these file would be very small.
>Well, the first problem here is that the Director would have to know how >much space it was going to need for BSR files. Of course, it could >pre-allocate a fixed-size block of, say, 1MB for BSR files. Agree, 1 MB is basically nothing on a tape and it can accommodate easily a huge amount of bsr files. My /etc/bacula is 88k uncompressed. >The second problem, it seems to me, is that this would break >compatibility with all older Bacula volumes and installations. not necessarily if you make this information at the beginning of the tape look like a "volume file". It will be ignored by old directors because it will look the same as a failed job that took space on the tape. Pablo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
