Thanks John, using those tools, the documentation, and a bit of trial and
error I was able to get his data back. I appreciate your speedy input.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> bscan, bls, bextract are the tools to use.
>
> Please post the exact error if you can.
>
>
>
I just had a client call in a panic. Apparently they've had a server crash
and the only backup of the data they have is Bacula volume files copied off
site from a disk to disk backup. I took a look through the docs, but I'm not
really familiar with how Bacula works.
I ran a bscan using the command
>I have realized disk2disk2tape by migrating jobs (see manual:
>http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Migration.html). By doing so you
>can configure something like this:
>
>client with file daemon (and the files you want to backup)
>backserver with director daemon, storage daemon and file daemon.
>
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hengst
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:30 PM
To: 'John Drescher'
Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Disk to Disk to Tape
>In bconsole
>
>list volumes
>
>and find the last written volume
>
>Then go to your storage and copy the file
In our Bacula setup, we're currently backing up several servers to a pool of
three large volumes on a RAID array. These volumes are set to auto-recycle and
are limited to 250gb in size. Typically, each volume holds at least one full
backup and several days worth of differentials before it hits t
