[ale] Today's lesson: rdiff-backup restores

[Jim Kinney]

<sigh>

My backup rig is in the same rack with the machines it backs up. Politics
and network limitations prevent relocating it elsewhere. So a monthly
extraction of full backup tapes to my office across campus is my solution.
I use a specific set of LTO6 tapes just for fulls with a rolling set for
incr and diffs.
On Feb 23, 2016 8:26 AM, "Dow Hurst" <dphurst at uncg.edu> wrote:

> I have bacula setup on ~10 clients with daily incremental, weekly
> differential, and monthly full backups implemented.  Bacula works great and
> any individual file or subdirectory can be restored on demand if needed.
> Anytime I've had to restore something, it just works.  Once I got the main
> configuration template for one client working then the rest of the clients
> were pretty straightforward. So, I know backups and restores work.  The
> problem we haven't dealt with yet and have plans to rectify is that the
> backup server is still in the same building as the clients being backed
> up...
>
> Sincerely,
> Dow
> ⚛Dow Hurst, Research Scientist
>        340 Sullivan Science Bldg.
>        Dept. of Chem. and Biochem.
>        University of North Carolina at Greensboro
>        PO Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The lesson is that restoring files via rdiff-backup actually works quite
>> well.  I'm very happy the restore was relatively painless.
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