My main box, which had the bacula server and was also the subject of backups, just died. I thought I was well-prepared, but seem to have missed a few things. Specifically, I do not have a copy of the configuration files and I do not have a separate backup of the catalog or a bootstrap record for the same.
This seems to differ from the expected scenarios in the documentation, though I need to study it further. But I would appreciate any advice about how to proceed. It is not a "bare metal" scenario since the new box (I was going to move to it eventually) has a running system with all the bacula components. It is relatively empty otherwise. I "have" the missing configuration files and catalog within the backup (though the catalog backup would not have the last round of stuff), but that doesn't help much in the first round. I've been backing upto disk (that is, each volume is a file on the disk) and I have those files and the bsr records for the individual jobs. The main problem is that I apparently need to define the jobs in bacula-dir.conf before I can proceed. I guess I can create approximations of what I had before (most of the details were in what files to exclude, and I don't need that for restore). I think the next step is to use bscan to rebuild the catalog from the backup media. Then I run the restore jobs, pointing to the bsr files. I think at the end of this I have all my files back, and maybe some that I deleted as well (if I had a proper backup of the catalog would it take care of that problem?). There are two other possible issues. First, the name of the system has changed. Second, the old system ran bacula 1.3x (at 1.37), while the new is at 2.0. (Also postgres 7.4 v 8.1) I could downgrade if necessary. So... will this work? Any suggestions? Thanks. Ross Boylan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
