On 2025-08-23 15:29, Rob Gerber wrote:
I don't have a lot of time right now, but my main question is "Given
enough time and effort, you almost certainly could do this, but should
you?"
I don't mean to be a downer, but are you sure screwing around with
bacula and "faking" an initial backup condition is worth the risk that
you get something wrong and you've "tricked" bacula into thinking
things are ok, when they actually aren't and your backups are invalid?
Got to run, sorry for lack of details.
Conversely, wouldn't I be able to find out if it worked fairly quickly?
The initial backup would be the "fake" so if I can't restore a file from
it after reverting to the real setup, then I'd know it didn't work. The
second test would come the next day, if the backup didn't duplicate
files already in the original and if if I could still restore files.
Your cautions are well taken but I've got a lot of files and trying to
sift through them to find ones I may need in the future is a gargantuan
task, while keeping a duplicate set of files is a large (2.7T) waste of
space.
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