Josh, Yes, I understand how the copy jobs works when the original job is deleted. What I need to do is rebuild the client directories with the backup database using the latest offsite backup, if possible. I don't want to restore the backup for the client, I want to rebuild the data in the directories so that a restore can be done from there. Hope that makes since. I know that I can use the offsite backups to restore the client data. I want to know if I can rebuild what would be the initial backup of the volume.
thanks, jerry On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 6:18 AM Josh Fisher <jfis...@pvct.com> wrote: > > 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> > 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Phil Stracchino >> Babylon Communications >> ph...@caerllewys.net >> p...@co.ordinate.org >> Landline: +1.603.293.8485 >> Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing > listBacula-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > >
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