Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from volume files?

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Hengst
Thanks John, using those tools, the documentation, and a bit of trial and error I was able to get his data back. I appreciate your speedy input. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.comwrote: bscan, bls, bextract are the tools to use. Please post the exact error

[Bacula-users] Restore from volume files?

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Hengst
I just had a client call in a panic. Apparently they've had a server crash and the only backup of the data they have is Bacula volume files copied off site from a disk to disk backup. I took a look through the docs, but I'm not really familiar with how Bacula works. I ran a bscan using the

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: Disk to Disk to Tape

2008-11-26 Thread Martin Hengst
I have realized disk2disk2tape by migrating jobs (see manual: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Migration.html). By doing so you can configure something like this: client with file daemon (and the files you want to backup) backserver with director daemon, storage daemon and file daemon. 1. you

[Bacula-users] Disk to Disk to Tape

2008-11-25 Thread Martin Hengst
In our Bacula setup, we're currently backing up several servers to a pool of three large volumes on a RAID array. These volumes are set to auto-recycle and are limited to 250gb in size. Typically, each volume holds at least one full backup and several days worth of differentials before it hits

[Bacula-users] FW: Disk to Disk to Tape

2008-11-25 Thread Martin Hengst
-Original Message- From: Martin Hengst Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:30 PM To: 'John Drescher' Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Disk to Disk to Tape In bconsole list volumes and find the last written volume Then go to your storage and copy the file. Probably with the cp command