On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:14:48AM -0800, Neil Schneider wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Ugh, I guess this means I'm back to using tar, and writing my own
backup software. I have filed a bug report with SGI, so we'll see
where that goes.
Have you looked at bacula. Several people, including myself, have been using
it with success. Before I wrote my own code, I would look at bacula. And I
have done restores from bacula, though not complete bare metal restores. I
seem to have a problem creating a proper boot CD.
Please see my other post. Bacula does _not_ restore properly, unless you
only do full backups. It's on their TODO.
So here's another question, does anybody know how to test a backup? There
used to be a nice semi-free program for doing this: freeveracity. Now
their appears to be nothing, so I had to hack something together myself.
Without doing a test restore to a temp filesystem, and having something
that can verify that every file and permission is correct, how do you know
the restore worked? Most restore errors are subtle, and you might not
discover them until a long time later.
Dave
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