On Thursday 23 November 2006 17:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Somehow the full backup failed... i only have incremental backups... > >> it's > >> impossible to restore any content at all? > > > > Your request for help is a little lacking on content. You don't indicate > > what > > version of Bacula you have or how you are trying to restore or what the > > error > > messages are. Normally, Bacula does not permit making Incremental > > backups > > without a Full backup, so what you are saying doesn't make a lot of sense. > > > > There are always lots of different ways to restore when things start going > > wrong and the Restore chapter of the manual gives a pretty good overview.
> First of all thank you for your answer and i'm sorry about being a bit > vague. It is not serious, but it can slow down getting to an answer ... > > I'm running SuSE 10.1 with bacula 1.38.11. Nice combination. :-) > Basically, when i try to restore a backup of specific client, and when i > choose the option to use the most recent backup of a client i get the > message that there aren't full backups of the this client before the > present date... but i see incremental jobs done in the past on the same > client. I suspect that either you purged the Full backup or it was somehow pruned from the catalog. Bacula attempts to never prune the last Full backup, but something went wrong in your case. You should carefully examine your retention periods. You can rather easily get back any of the data in any/all the Incremental backups by selecting them by JobId in the restore command. If the Job record and Volume still exists for the Full, you can get *all* the files back by specifying the JobId for that job -- the restore command will complain that there are no File records and let you choose to restore all records. I may be wrong on this, if the feature was implemented in 1.39, but I *think* it is in your version. The text at the end of the Restore chapter of the manual explains how to do this manually -- assuming you have the job output and the tape/disk Volume is not overwritten. Regards, Kern > > Any more info? > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
