Dear list, I have had a little trouble which I mostly caused myself. :) It's another boring tale of "I lost my catalog".
(Prologue: I'm backing up to a "disk" storage (daily) and a "tape" storage
(weekly). And the physical disk ran full so I tried to purge and
remove "volumes" (files) there. Unfortunately I did it wrong and thus
couldn't restore from disk any more. So I tried to restore from "tape" -
my safety net. Unfortunately the jobs there had been pruned automatically
already.)
So I thought I'd recover the catalog by "bscan"ning the two tapes that I
know were used for the last full backup. This is where my story begins:
Attempt 1:
I scanned the two tapes seperately with commands like:
bscan -V ait01 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -P mypassword \
-h my.server.ip -v -s -m /dev/nst0
bscan -V ait05 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -P mypassword \
-h my.server.ip -v -s -m /dev/nst0
I ended up with a job in "list jobs" but with termination code "E". So I
couldn't restore from it.
Attempt 2:
I read the documentation again and found that I can restore two volumes at
once with the "pipe" syntax so I tried:
bscan -V 'ait01|ait05' -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -P mypassword \
-h my.server.ip -v -s -m /dev/nst0
and ran types "ait01" and "ait05" through. Again I ended up with a job with
code "E".
Attempt 3:
I went into the database (PostgreSQL, ASCII encoding) and changed the job
status to "T" manually and tried to restore with option 5 ("Select the
most recent backup for a client"). The restore failed due to:
"No Full backup before 2009-03-24 13:54:38 found."
Attempt 4:
Interestingly it tried to use my disk-based job instead of the desired
tape-based job. So I used option 11 ("Enter a list of directories to
restore for found JobIds"), chose the job ID manually and finally
recovered my long-lost file.
So I wonder what I did wrong. Of course I wouldn't want to use "bscan" as
an everyday tool and should take better care of my catalog and volumes.
But as a last resort I'd like to have a reliable catalog recovery.
Comments welcome. Thanks.
Cheers
Christoph
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