I think this will be a good lesson learned, I don't have any copies of bacula conf
Luckily what has been lost was called our junk drive which was a place to store useful but unimportant data and downloads. I'm considering installing the latest and starting again from scratch. Thanks for all the help and if anyone has any other ideas please let me know Regards, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Neuvonen" <timo-n...@tee-en.net> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 16:33:18 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] lost hard drive bacula was on "John Fitzpatrick" <jfitzpatr...@altobridge.com> kirjoitti viestissä news:26267652.21249891473334.javamail.alto...@alto32... > > Hi Ryan, > > Thanks for the reply, just reading up on bextract now. > > Can anybody confirm I can install the latest bacula > > Thanks, > John > Bacula catalog database structure has changed (I think more than once) between 1.38.5 and the latest release, 3.0.2. This means you'll need to be able to upgrade the catalog contents before 3.0.x can use the catalog you'll be able to exract from your media with bextract. If it were a "regular" upgrade from an existing bacula installation, the upgrade should be rather straightforward. I don't know if you'll now need to install 3.0.x first, then drop the empty database, restore the extracted catalog information from an ascii dump, and upgrade that resulting catalog, or if the proper sequence is something else. But there will be some extra steps involved, I think. Unless someone can tell the right way of doing it, I propably would start with installing 1.38 because it should accept the same catalog database. This way there would be a working system with less required steps, and you could verify the catalog at the earliest possible point. Another issue conflicting my idea above is, that some bacula tape utility (maybe bextract, maybe bscan, maybe something else) used to be very slow in that early generation of bacula. So, bextract might run faster anyway if you start with 3.0.x bextract. ps. I hope you have a copy of your Bacula conf files somewhere available. I think the bexract utility will also need at least a functional storage daemon conf file... Regards, Timo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ryan Novosielski" <novos...@umdnj.edu> > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, 7 August, 2009 22:11:02 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] lost hard drive bacula was on > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Easiest would probably be to restore your catalog backup with bextract. > You could also do a fresh install and bscan tapes, but this takes longer. > > Someone can chime in and correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can > start with the current version of Bacula -- you do not have to go to > 1.38.5 (and if you're going to install 1.38, you should at least use .11). > > =R > > John Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Short story hard disk failed, main bacula release 1.38.5 was installed >> here so cannot access catalog >> >> A full backup of everything was taken the night before so the catalog >> was backed up to lto tape >> >> Question is now what is best to do? >> >> locate 1.38.5 bacula version then install this setting up storage daemon >> et all >> >> but will i be able to get the catalog from the tapes > > - -- > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
