On Friday 2015-07-31 11:12:36 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I would suggest that you read the sections of the manual that document > bscan, bls, and bextract. You will then understand that it is possible > to do a large number of things without a bsr file. If you read the > section of the manual about the bsr, you will understand that from > simple Job output, you can easily construct a bsr that will restore the > whole job or even parts of a job. > > Best regards, > Kern
Hi, I went trough the manual to refresh my memory and I have found that it only confirms what I have said in my previous post. In order to use bextract to extract the exact job from a volume that contains multiple backup jobs one would need to create and specify a bsr file. It is possible to use "-i" and "-e" options but that wouldn't help to select all the files that belongs to a certain job and if those options are omitted and no bsr file is specified the complete content of the volume (all jobs) would be extracted to a specified output directory. > On 31.07.2015 00:31, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > On Thursday 2015-07-30 21:51:11 Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> 2015-07-30 11:54 GMT+02:00 Josip Deanovic <djosip+n...@linuxpages.net>: > >>> I would like to add that in order to extract the files without the > >>> bacula database, using the bextract tool, you will also have to > >>> create > >>> a bootstrap file. > >> > >> Well. It is not required. It is possible to use bextract without a > >> bsr > >> file. > > > > It is possible but without a bootstrap file you wouldn't be able to > > control what job or a number of jobs gets extracted. > > If you have multiple backup jobs from multiple systems contained > > inside > > the same backup volume (which is common scenario) the restore without > > a > > bsr file would make a mess in the specified output directory. > > > > I might be wrong because I didn't try it but it seems to me that this > > is exactly what would happen (unless you are using one job per volume > > which is possible but rare practice). -- Josip Deanovic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
