On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 18:31, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > today a customer asks me for a list of files in a directory at a given > date in february > > I open Bacularis-5.0.0, and want to use "Restore" to browse the database: > > there's a job backing up the samba-share containing the relevant > directories. > > What scares me: > > I choose a FULL backup but when I come to "Step 3 - select files to > restore", it tells me: > > "It seems that there is no files for choosing or file records in > database for this job has been purged (file retention period expired)" > > So the Job is in the DB but "without content" ?
Hello Stefan, It looks that your file records for that job are pruned. In this case it is good to check and adapt the File Retention and AutoPrune directives. To make sure that it is this case, you can run in bconsole (for jobid=XXXX): list files jobid=XXXX If you are not seeing the file list, it means that the file records are pruned. For the restore in Bacularis, a bit above this message about no files, there is also another message: "No file found for selected backup. It can mean file records for this backup are pruned. Restoring selected files is not available but if you continue, there will be performed full restore all backup files." So, if you finish this wizard, Bacularis will do full restore all files. This is the same what can be done directly in Bconsole as well. Good luck. Best regards, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
