just a quick answer to my own question (in case someone else is interested). Commands needed are: bls bextract
(this link provided me with the necessary info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31410077/bacula-bareos-disaster-recover-from-scratch-using-bextract ) On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 10:00:57 AM UTC+2 Andy Feys wrote: > Hi, > > I'm evaluating Bareos as a backup solution. So far I succeeded in > installing a test bareos server, a test bareos client and configure the > backups. This seems to work. No problem there, I think I understand this > now. > I backup to the hard disk of the test bareos server. Data is currently > stored in /var/lib/bareos/storage. The bootstrap files are stored in > /var/lib/bareos. > > In my old system I backup all my servers to one workstation with a lot of > diskspace (each server has its own folder) and then copy the data to > external 12TB encrypted usb disks which are stored off-site in a safe in > another city. I have 5 disks in a weekly rotation, and then another 12 > disks, one for each month of the year. This is fine for our purposes, and > should result in no more than a few days worth of data lost in case our > building burns down or a plane crashes into it. We can live with that > (better 2 days lost than all data lost). This works, but is a lot of work > to check if everything is running fine because not all servers use the same > backup software, so there is no one dashboard to check it all at a glance. > > I really like bareos for the backup of our servers to the one workstation. > And I can then rsync all my data from /var/lib/bareos to the external usb > disks just like I do now. > > But here is my question: how do I restore the data from the usb disks when > the bareos server has burned down? Ideally I would like to make some > bootable USB sticks to store in the safe which can read the backupdata from > the external usb disk and restore certain files or folders (or everything) > to a temporary location. > > Let's say I want to restore the latest version of folder > /data/projects/AwesomeProject1 from the backup of server MickeyMouse so my > colleagues can get back to work asap after our building has burned down > giving me time to re-install all servers and restore all data. Is there a > simple command line tool that can read the backups and restore the last > backup? > > I would like to be able to plugin the external usb drive, boot my laptop > from the usb stick where all necessary tools and scripts are pre-installed > and get the data (either all or a specific file or folder) asap and as > easily as possible. I want to restore to a locally mounted location (for > example /data/restoreddata) > > How would you do that? I can mount the encrypted usb drive just fine on my > laptop, and then I have a /mnt/extdisk folder which contains my complete > /var/lib/bareos folder from the bareos server. > > Is there a command that would work like this: > bareosquickrestore -from /mnt/extdisk/MickeyMouse.bsr -to > /data/restoreddata -selectfiles /data/projects/AwesomeProject1/* > -restoredate latest > > very grateful for any tips/hints/links. > > best regards, > Andy > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/9da2df11-d03e-4372-a8d9-90f0d7dbd1can%40googlegroups.com.
