On 12/11/2018 1:09 AM, Jerry Lowry wrote:
Well, The raid was (8) 6TB disks attached to an ATTO Tech raid
controller in a supermicro cabinet. It was setup as a raid-5 disk
array. The ATTO support group know how it was configured as they have
been helping me since Thursday. The raid setup is not the problem,
that can be rebuilt to duplicate the on disk file structure. Bacula
was using this raid array as storage for different clients in my
network. Each client had a directory on the array and with in each
directory there were anywhere from 3 bacula volumes to 8 volumes. Each
volume held any where from 250 GB to 320 GB. Two of the clients would
have an offsite backup done each week. A Bacula copy job would run
each week and copy that weeks backups on to a hot swap raid disk
running on the same system. The system was the Director and Storage
director combined.
What I want to do is to restore the daily volumes into the new raid
array from the offsite disks from the most recent offsite backups.
Will any of the bacula utilities enable me to do this?
No special tools are needed. If the original volume files no longer
exist, then the volumes (and their jobs) can be deleted from the catalog
using 'delete volume'. When bacula finds a Copy of a job when a Job is
deleted from the catalog, then it will automatically promote the Copy as
the real backup for that job so that subsequent restores use the
promoted copy rather than the original. The Copy literally replaces the
original and the original ceases to exist. At that point, a normal
restore will automatically use those promoted volumes. You should ensure
that those promoted volumes are marked as Used so that no jobs will
attempt to write to them.
If auto-labeling is being used, then jobs should create new volumes as
needed when they run. If not, then you will manually create new empty
volume files in the client directories and label them using the Label
command from bconsole.
Thanks,
jerry
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:01 PM Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net
<mailto:ph...@caerllewys.net>> wrote:
On 12/10/18 7:44 PM, Jerry Lowry wrote:
> Hi,
> Last thursday I was adding a disk to the bacula raid array when the
> system decide to fail. When it rebooted my raid array was gone. This
> raid was where all of my daily backups were held, which is where
I do my
> offsite backups from. The database is fine, catalog is in working
> order. I rebuilt the server and per Raid Support I have all new
disks.
>
> I need to recreate the physical backup volumes for each of the
clients
> back on the raid array. I have looked at the utility document.
Is bcopy
> what I need to use? I want recreate for example the file
structure on
> disk call /engineering/tools with the volumes "tool-3, tools-4,
tools5...".
In ordert to be able to answer this question, anyone here would
need to
know a lot more about how your RAID was set up. But you're probably a
lot better off asking for help from whoever made the tools you used to
build it, or community forums for them. They'll need to know what you
built it with too.
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