Hi, 22.08.2007 23:23,, Maria McKinley wrote:: > Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 22.08.2007 03:01,, James Harper wrote:: >> >>>> (note that retention times can make >>>> this interesting: You bscan, the old jobs are added to the catalog, >>>> but then the old jobs, files or volumes are immediately pruned...) >>> Can you elaborate on this? >> >> Sure... >> >> >>> I think I have been bitten by that too. I >>> mucked around a lot to try and get a volume catalogued that was past its >>> retention period, and in the end I think that the way I solved it was to >>> delete the volume completely from the catalogue, but I did a lot of >>> other stuff that I can't quite remember and am not sure which bits made >>> a difference anyway. >> >> As you found out, automatic pruning can be really annoying :-) >> >> >>> Does anyone have a procedure for re-importing a catalogue from a volume >>> which has been pruned? >> >> My procedure is like this: >> - I usually know which volumes I need to scan, and I know which pool >> they belong to. I even know which client's data is interesting to me. >> - I change the relevant retentention settings in the DIR config and >> reload. If necessary, I change the retention settings in the catalog, >> too (like 'update volume=xxx' and then follow the menu) ur I disable >> automatic pruning for the volumes in question). Don't forget to relaod >> the DIR after doing configuration changes, and don't forget to verify >> the modified configuration is usable using "bacula-dir -t -c ..." >> - I bscan the volumes into the catalog. If the volumes are already >> existing in the catalog, pruning will not take place because the >> volume settings disallow it. It the volumes are newly created (I don't >> recall if I ever had such a case...) the default settings should >> prevent the volume from being automatically pruned. >> - Do the work you need to do, typically restores. >> - Undo the configuration and volume attribute changes, where >> necessary. Don't forget the 'reload'. >> >> Some extra work, but at least you don't have to scan the volumes >> multiple times :-) >> >> Arno >> >> > Hey Arno, > > I know the jobid and the volumes. I have the retention period set at a > year, and it is less than a year ago, but when I attempt to restore the > jobid it comes up with zero files. I assume that this means that the job > has been pruned, but that there is still info about the volumes in the > catalog, since they have a long retention time.
It looks like that, yes. > So, if I want to restore > at this point, I don't think I need to make the changes you were > suggesting above to the dir config or to the volumes themselves, but I > should just be able to scan the volumes into the catalog at this point. > Is this correct? I think so... but the job files will be pruned once the DIR triggers the next round of pruning, which can happen effectively immediately. > I'm a bit confused as to why you would ever need to > change things in the dir config file, if the volumes still show up in > list volumes. In your case, just to ensure the job files are not pruned. Arno > thanks, > maria > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
