Thanks guys, I'll try and let you know how it worked out. > Hello, > > 29.10.2007 09:34,, Janco van der Merwe wrote:: >> Hi, >> >> I hope someone can help me with this one. >> >> Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it >> up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation. > > Always a bad thing, especially if they don't have good enough > documentation :-) > >> First the nitty gritty: >> Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL >> RHEL 4 >> Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3 >> >> These people have different backups pools namely - >> Daily with 10 volumes >> Weekly with 4 volumes >> Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of >> 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years >> >> The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and >> because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly >> the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly >> backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the >> catalog except for the bsr files. > > Do you have the bsr files that were current when the files they want > back were backed up? > > A recent bsr file won't help you as it doesn't reference older backups. > >> Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr >> files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and >> set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is >> possible how will I go about doing it? > > I assume you don't have the old bsr files for now. > >> I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar >> situations but was unable to find anything. >> >> Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that >> I missed it? > > :-) > Ok, I try to be very gently... > > First, you should know which tapes you need. > > If you've absolutely no idea which tapes the jobs are on, you have > some work before you. > > First, see if they archive the job report mails or the console log - > both are excellent sources to search for the relevant volume names. > > Once you've got the volumes, you can use bls to see their contents. > > If you want the contents back in the catalog, you'd use bscan, but > only after you fixed the retention times,reloaded the configuration, > and probably set the volume attributes so they reflect the retention > times you really want. > > If you don't want the whole stuff in the catalog again, with the > output from bls, you can use bextract to locally store the needed > files to disk. > > Does this help you, or do you want some more details? > > (By the way - there was a discussion started by Maria McKinley a while > ago, with the subject "old recovery". I think you'll find valuable > information in there. That's the most recent elaboration of the > solutions to this sort of problems, I think.) > > Arno > >> > > -- > 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 > >
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