> Greetings Baculans,
> We are running Bacula on Centos 6.5, which means Bacula 5.0.0. Over the past 9
> months I had been backing up files with File and Job Retention periods in the
> Client resource of bacula-dir.conf of 60 days. So our old file listings have
> been pruned, but I need them back. How do I do it?
> I have changed the retention periods to 12 months, and I have done some
> bscan's
> of some old tapes. I thought that would repopulate my database with the file
> names, but it has not. echo "list jobs jobid=190" | bconsole returns "No
> results to list." on a backup with 49,731 JobFiles.
> Any suggestions about how to perform this would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hello Michael: bscan when restoring jobs perform that to another different and
new JobID. Please check the logs.
> We are backing up a number of critical log files that are necessary to recover
> quickly, accurately, and easily. I was tasked with making restores so easy
> "even a monkey can do it". So I'm trying to create a document for my
> coworkers:
> "The Chimp's Guide to Restores".
bscan and bextract are disaster recovery tools. I would not use them as regular
restore procedures.
> My thinking is to create a process so that a user could
> * Give a file's basename, or substring that is part of a pathname, or a
> regular
> expression that matches a file's pathname string.
> * Give a date range from within which we want to restore the file.
> * Give where to put the file.
> and then they would be presented with a tape to load for the restore, and-
> voila'! File restored. My idea is to save all job file listings into files by
> job id, then I can use UNIX tools to scour them as required.
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