On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:01:56PM -0700, Steve Ellis wrote: > On 6/23/2011 1:31 PM, Troy Kocher wrote: > > Listers, > > > > I'm trying to restore data from medicaid 27, but it appears there are no > > files. There is a file corresponding with this still on the disk, so I > > think it's just been purged from the database. > > > > Could someone help me thru the restore process when the files are no longer > > in the database. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Troy > > > There are really only 3 options here that I can think of: > 1) restore the entire job (probably to an temporary location), then > prune the bits you don't want. > 2) use bscan of the volume to recreate the file list in the db > (note that I have only used this when the job itself had been expired > from the DB) > 3) restore a dump of the catalog that contains the file entries > that you wanted that have been expired
4) Use bextract. > I'm pretty sure I've done both #1 and #2, #3 I'd be much more reluctant > to just try, as I would worry about clobbering more recent catalog data, > unless you used a separate catalog db for the restoration. Unless the > job is really huge, I'd probably do #1, because bscan is (slightly) > dodgy, especially for backups that span volumes (IMHO, note that it is > _much_ better than not having bscan at all). Sorry I can't provide more > detail, hopefully someone else will be able to help more. > > -se > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. > Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, > secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? > Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
