Re: want to migrate to bacula from rsync backups.
Gary Dale <[email protected]>
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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. _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users