On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Shawn Robert Lesniak wrote: > Greetings, > I am the system administrator at a lab at UCR. We have a ~800GB RAID > 5 array that was being backed up using bacula that suffered severe data > loss (mostly due to reiserfsck) that was being backed up to an Exabyte > tape changer system. Unfortunately, the bacula database happened to be > on the array. I'm trying to rebuild the database, however, with 20 > tapes that are each taking ~4 hours to scan (I'm still scanning the > first one) this is going to take a very very long time. Is there a > faster way to do this?
Yes, use the bootstrap files for a complete restore job. The database is mainly for individual file rescue or old backups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
