Hello I'm new to this forum and I really need some help with bacula. I have a home server (gentoo linux) with all of baculas components installed on, backup is done on "/boot" and "/" partitions on the server and stored as a file on another HD. There is only 1 backup-file which contains only the latest full backup. I use mysql as database!
I really don't know much about bacula, I followed a howto to get it setup over a year ago and once it was running I kind of forgot all about baculas config and such. Now I have managed to remove a whole bunch of files from the server and it's no longer possible to boot into linux :( I have booted a LiveCD and managed to copy the backup-file to my desktop computer, and also what I think is the bootstrap-file?? a file located in /var/lib/bacula/t1000.bsr (the server name is t1000). Now basically what I want to do is: from my desktop computer extract ALL files from the backup-file to a temporary location /tmp/t1000 The backup-file "t1000Vol0001" is modified "May 31 2010" and the ?bootstrap-file? "t1000.bsr" is modified "Jul 7 2009" My question now is if this is correct? Is the bootstrap-file created once then left alone or should it change with every backup? I should say at this point that all config files for bacula was removed by my mistake so I can't see how things were setup. The config files, of course, is included in the backup-file though! Now to the possibility to extract files, can this be done from my situation? On my desktop computer in /tmp I have placed both "t1000Vol0001" and "t1000.bsr" and created a folder /tmp/t1000 to were I'd like to place the extracted files. I have installed bacula (not changing any setup), and tried to extract files with "bextract" first like this: bextract -v -b t1000.bsr FileStorage /tmp/t1000 bextract: butil.c:281 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading. 30-jun 14:30 bextract JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "t1000Vol0001" on device "FileStorage" (/tmp). 30-jun 14:30 bextract JobId 0: Forward spacing Volume "t1000Vol0001" to file:block 0:195. 0 files restored. No files were restored! Then I tried without the bootstrap: bextract -v -V t1000Vol0001 FileStorage /tmp/t1000 bextract: butil.c:281 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading. 30-jun 14:38 bextract JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "t1000Vol0001" on device "FileStorage" (/tmp). bextract JobId 0: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 2009-03-04 18:48:21 /tmp/t1000/root/crons.cron And this never seem to stop, bextract is using the CPU at 100% but the only thing showing up in /tmp/t1000 is root/crons.cron and the file is empty! It has been working like this for a couple of hours now. "t1000.bsr" looks like this: # 07-jul-2009 23:21:35 - t1000Job.2009-07-07_23.02.10 - Full Volume="t1000Vol0001" MediaType="File" VolSessionId=11 VolSessionTime=1244397210 VolFile=0-0 VolBlock=195-999935621 FileIndex=1-187910 Volume="t1000Vol0001" MediaType="File" VolSessionId=11 VolSessionTime=1244397210 VolFile=0-0 VolBlock=999935622-1905842238 FileIndex=187910-317000 Please help my guys! And remember that I don't know much about bacula when explaining. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by crazy...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
