bextract is used directly with volume, so of course it is used on storage, so if yours is a remote, you have to use bextract there.
On Monday 4 March 2024 at 18:44:42 UTC+1 Oleg Volkov wrote: > Very interesting question. Had not tried this in a distributed environment. > I could assume that bextract work without a director on storage itself. > > Oleg Volkov > T: +972-50-7601914 <+972%2050-760-1914> > Skype: voleg4u , WhatsApp. > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 6:17 PM Michael Kurz <michi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So i tried this using the linked guide on my setup which has the director >> and the storage daemon on different machines, but got stuck at the bextract >> step, with bextract not finding the given device: >> >> director-server:~# bextract -b /tmp/bs01-bootstrap BD01-BackupDisk >> /tmp/back >> bextract: stored/butil.cc:299-0 Could not find device "BD01-BackupDisk" >> in config file <NULL>. >> 04-Mar 15:18 bextract JobId 0: Fatal error: stored/butil.cc:173 Cannot >> find device "BD01-BackupDisk" in config file <NULL>. >> >> Specifying any configuration file form the director (bareos-dir.conf or >> stroage.conf where the storage is defined) complains about an incompatible >> configuration file. >> >> Do i understand it correctly that bextract can only work on the storage >> daemon server and not on the director server if these are different >> machines? >> The link implies that it would work on the director server to, but maybe >> i understood it wrong. >> >> So my question is can bextract be used from a director with the storage >> daemon on another machine? And if so, how would i do this? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 8:18:10 AM UTC+2 Oleg Volkov wrote: >> >>> http://www.voleg.info/bareos-disaster-recovery.html >>> Quite old, but still work in principal. >>> >>> On Friday, September 22, 2023 at 11:20:10 PM UTC+3 wizh...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have followed the documentation and cannot get past the restore >>>> command requiring a jobid >>>> >>>> The docs state >>>> >>>> " After re-initializing the database, you should be able to run >>>> Bareos. If you now try to use the restore command, it will not work >>>> because >>>> the database will be empty. However, you can manually run a restore job >>>> and >>>> specify your bootstrap file. You do so by entering the run command in the >>>> console and selecting the restore job. If you are using the default Bareos >>>> Director configuration, this Job will be named RestoreFiles. Most likely >>>> it >>>> will prompt you with something such as:" >>>> >>>> So o run in bconsole >>>> >>>> run >>>> >>>> then selec 14 for RestoreFiles >>>> >>>> It then requires a jobid to continue but there are non yet in the >>>> database as I am trying to get the catalog using a bootstrap file. >>>> >>>> What am I missing? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "bareos-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bareos-users/Yno-Z1DOOTY/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> bareos-users...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/880ef1e8-bf7a-4f5a-a52a-3dc2dacd948dn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/880ef1e8-bf7a-4f5a-a52a-3dc2dacd948dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/7d2315e6-6c83-4e62-b3e0-d237aebe9568n%40googlegroups.com.
