Hi all, I have been backing up a file server with Bacula for a year or so. The server has died and I am trying to restore the files to another machine and not having much luck.
Using the "restore" command from bconsole on the new box is not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling. If I select Most Recent Backup, the number of files selected is nowhere near large enough. It shows about 5,000 files, when I expect the number to be 10 times that. I made a copy of the sqlite database and used that to do some queries to find out what is going on. The database seems to think that a lot of the backed-up files are missing. I am praying that this is not the case! The backups are performed to a separate backup server, and stored on disk. These files look reasonable from a size and date perspective: -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 169G 2007-02-09 19:31 PaulFull-1 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 162G 2007-03-05 18:41 PaulFull-2 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 962M 2007-03-25 23:18 PaulDiff-2 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 163G 2007-04-02 20:05 PaulFull-3 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 5.0G 2007-04-15 23:49 PaulDiff-3 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 5.0G 2007-04-22 23:42 PaulDiff-4 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 6.5G 2007-04-29 23:52 PaulDiff-1 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 352M 2007-05-03 23:13 PaulInc-2 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 67G 2007-05-07 07:04 PaulFull-4 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 3.3M 2007-05-07 07:04 PaulFull-5 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 6.2M 2007-05-07 07:04 PaulFull-6 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 508M 2007-05-16 23:14 PaulInc-3 -rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 210M 2007-05-16 23:26 PaulInc-1 I am hoping that the database does not reflect what is in these backup files. What I would like to do is step through each of these backup files in chronological order and restore to the new server, disregarding what the database says. Is this possible? I know this info may be contained in previous posts, but a quick search has not uncovered anything. I'm starting to get a little panicked, so any calming help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
