On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:14 PM Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote:
> On 5/1/19 5:57 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > > To be honest, my mistake was I didn't realize that by "testing purposes" > > they meant "a temporary, throwaway system where you delete everything > > before moving on to production." By the time I decided Bacula was doing > > the job for me and it was time to move to a more robust backend, I had > > too much backup data to just start over from scratch. I didn't want to > > have to tell someone "I had a backup of that, but I deleted it." > > Basically I failed to look two steps ahead to see if there would be a > > migration path forward. > > Surely you could have just bscanned the media you had? > Yes, but I considered that a last resort, since bscan appears to be for recovering from Dire Emergencies and I wasn't clear on whether it'd give me a consistent catalog going forward. Since the system was actually working fine with SQLite, it seemed better to just keep going. Obviously now that the SQLite rug is going to be pulled out from under me I may have to revisit the bscan idea. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara
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