Hi, On 9/15/2006 9:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > Howdy, > > I am running bacula-dir version 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) on FreeBSD > 6.1-RELEASE. I am fairly new to Bacula, and have just configured two Unix > machines and one Windows XP machine with bacula-fd. Backups have been > running consistently for several weeks now without issue to a USB2.0 > attached 400GB external drive. I am truly amazed to see what is now a > 200GB single file on this disk, but all seems well.
You quote a good reason to limit the volume file size yourself :-) > Yesterday I had to blow away the disk on the Windows box temporarily, and > thought this would be a perfect time to test the restore. I had > temporarily installed FreeBSD on this disk to perform a few tasks, and > now wanted my windows box back. First I installed XP again. I haven't > investigated the use of the "bare metal recovery" tools, but decided I > might get around the problem of open files and registry by removing the > drive, attaching it to a USB2.0/IDE interface, and mounting the disk on > another windows box. I installed the bacula-fs client on this machine and > let it pretend to be the old box on its old IP. Then I started the > restore. Now I have a few questions. :-) > 1) The disk is now mounted as "E:\" on the windows box. When the default > recovery options popped up, I changed the restore destination to "E:/". > Sadly, instead of writing from root, it created a "C" directory in E:\, > and started the restore in there. Can this be overridden in some way? I don't think so, though I think there is some sort of a feature request regarding a functionality to allow this - basically stripping leading path components during a restore. That should also prove useful when restoring snapshots - you backup from /snapshot/usr, for example, and restore to /usr... or you backup from C:/ and restore to E:/ like in your case. > 2) The relevant backup jobs were close to the middle of the 200GB file on > my backup volume, and it took literally three hours to seek to the right > place before it started the restore. Surely this isn't right. Can't it > jump right to the correct block in this file and start restoring? No, due to some reasons Bacula does not do this. AFAIK this is documented in the manual somewhere, might be somewhere where it discusses the means to limit the volume size. > > Sorry if these questions are not unique. I searched the bacula site for a > wiki or some kind of search of the users mailing list, but came up empty. Hm. Sourceforge itself had some (not very good) search functions last time I looked, and then there is gmane.org > I could easily have missed it, and if someone would point me to any kind > of forum that I could search for my own answers that would be greatly > appreciated. No forums, and that's good IMO... > I promise to read: > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html For windows, I'd recommend using a BartPE based recovery strategy. Arno > > before attempting this again! I just want to get my windows box back :( > > Cheers! > > Jeff LaCoursiere > Network Consultant > Southland Gaming Virgin Islands > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
