On Thursday 15 February 2007 13:19, Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: > >> Kern, I've been wondering about this for a while. Wouldn't it be better > >> to have the file details for aborted backups inserted to the database > >> than simply dumped? > > > > This is currently what Bacula does when you do not use spooling -- i.e. > > neither data spooling nor attribute spooling, so in *some* cases > > (probably not the most useful), it is already implemented. > > I know, but as you say, some cases. > > > I'm not convinced that the average user wants the attributes for a failed > > job put into the database, as in most cases, they are pretty much > > useless, and simply consume more disk space -- after all, 99.9% of the > > time you are going to re-run the failed job. > > IMO: > > The files are already on the tape, will be there until the tape is > purged (manually or aged out) and may as well be catalogged > > Yes, another backup would be run 99.9% of the time, but being able to > easily reach files in an aborted backup covers the "DOH!" moment when a > user wipes out a file which wasn't in the last sucessful incremental save. > > 1Tb Full backups take at least a day to run here, so there's a window of > non-coverage if one fails partway through.
Send in a Feature Request, maybe it will be accepted for implementation. In any case, with the current system, the files can be recovered as long as the tape is not overwritten: 1. Use bextract 2. Use bscan (on the job) 3. You can use the restore command directly to restore all the files without the attributes being in the catalog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
