[bareos-users] Multiple catalogs to single catalog configuration. Possible?

[Alejandro Hamann]

Hello.

I wanted to know if it is possible to merge several catalogs into one; my goal is to convert the current configuration based on multiple catalogs, to a new more standard configuration, of a single catalog.

At the beginning, I thought that because of the number of files and the high retention times of files from a couple of pools (in some cases about 50 years), the catalogs were going to be very big. After a while, I see that the catalogs remain "small" (two catalogs of 1.4 GB, another of 150 MB and a fourth catalog of 30 MB); and then, I thought: "having multiple catalogs is a real pain, I should have only one, since there are more pains than benefits."

So, how could I "collect" my four catalogs into one? (if that were possible).


I have no problem adapting the Bareos configuration. My problem is with the part of the database (I use PostgreSQL).
I imagine that maybe I could adapt the configuration so that it handles a single catalog, and that this catalog is one of the ones I already have now. And then, somehow, import the tapes that belonged to other catalogs in the new "default catalog" (but with the possibility of maintaining the list of files, in order to recover some files individually later). But I do not know how to do this last part.

Any soul that helps me a little?

Regards!

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Pablo A. Hamann