On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:56:54AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic enlightened us:
Another question is about restores. How easy/automated are they? Amanda has a database of what file system is on what tape (and where on the tape). And that's about it. It has no idea of what files are actually contained inthere, what versions of the file, or where inside the dump/tar are the files. This makes restores a bit tedious and slow job, since 90% of time only single file (or set of files) is needed from backup, not entire file system.
Apparently you've never looked at the amrecover program...
I'm looking to something more like Veritas and Legato solution where backup server keeps tabs on the actuall files (what version, on which tape, and location on the tape). Is it easy to browse for particular file that I need to restore, and then simply have Bacula do the rest (load correct tape, rewind it to where the file is stored and extract it)?
The ability to tell backup system "I want server.mycorp.com's /etc/foobar.conf from two months ago restored" and then simply sit back and relax while backup server is doing all the job automatically in the background is priceless. Is Bacula able to do that?
# amrecover -C Dailies
sethost server.mycorp.com setdate 2005-06-02 setdisk / cd etc add foobar.conf extract
Sit back and relax :-)
Of course, you have to have indexing enabled, etc, but amanda can most certainly do it.
Matt