I have it working but one last (hopefully) question.
Do I need 2 restore jobs, one for each HDD. If not how do I define the
"storage =" argument? I could use HHD1 or HDD 2, but I suspect I need one
job for each, yes?
TIA
Glyn
John M. Drescher wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Josh Fisher <jfisher AT pvct DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> Mgr. Martin Fabus( wrote:
>>>>> What do I do with the catalog? Does this remain as it is, i.e. just
>>>>> one
>>>>> catalog for all the jobs and all the pools, do I use one of the new
>>>>> ones
>>>>> (full1, etc), or do I keep the default pool?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> It is enough to have 1 job for the catalog, but you will have to use
>>> different schedule, which would specify to backup the catalog on even
>>> pool on even weeks and odd pool on odd weeks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes. The catalog backups are always full backups, so they just need to
>> be in both pools. The tricky part is that the catalog backup be the last
>> job on a drive when that drive is unmounted. But that can be
>> accomplished with job priorities to force all other jobs to run before
>> the catalog backup. Basically, you don't want any backups on the drive
>> that are newer than the catalog backup.
>>
>
> Also with a catalog backup I highly recommend you keep the bootstrap
> file. Without that restoring the last catalog backup on the volume may
> be difficult. At least it was for me the 1 time (in over 5 years of
> bacula) I needed to restore the catalog backup 2 years ago.
>
> John
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