Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Loughran
(/me looks at cupboard full of tapes, and the DR tape list, and then looks at ensuring safe backup of catalogs...) Ryan Novosielski wrote: And if you haven't been backing up your catalog regularly (like me when one of my staff did this one to me ;)), you can bscan all the tapes. For me, it was

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Novosielski
And if you haven't been backing up your catalog regularly (like me when one of my staff did this one to me ;)), you can bscan all the tapes. For me, it was 3 tapes, so it was not a big deal. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&|

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Peterson
The catalog backup was waiting on another job to finish.  I thought I cancelled all jobs, but apparently the catalog backup still ran. I'm not sure how or why.  That's why I thought the restore had started the backup. Anyways my last catalog backup is a couple days old so I'm not sure I really want

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
I think you are right, but I never had to use bextract, I always keep the 3 last gziped catalogs backups on another server. Ludovic. Eric Peterson a écrit : > That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the > catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last >

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Eric Peterson wrote: > That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the > catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last > catalog backup with the now purged catalog. So I'm out of luck. "as part of the catalog restore"?!? If any restore job is starting

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
Overwrote? There should be no overwriting of any backup. It still exists on tape. I'm sure. On 2 Feb 2006 at 9:27, Eric Peterson wrote: > That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the catalog > restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last catalog backup > with

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Peterson
That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last catalog backup with the now purged catalog.  So I'm out of luck. At least I should be able to restore using bextract if I have to.  Correct me if I'm wrong!  I was

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Ludovic Strappazon wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I think you should restore your catalog > > Ludovic Strappazon > > Eric Peterson a écrit : > > >>I was trying to recycle a volume following the directions on the >>website. I guess they are only for newer versions or I didn't do >>things quite right. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
Hi Eric, I think you should restore your catalog Ludovic Strappazon Eric Peterson a écrit : > I was trying to recycle a volume following the directions on the > website. I guess they are only for newer versions or I didn't do > things quite right. > > I selected 'purge', 'jobs', and then it as

[Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Peterson
I was trying to recycle a volume following the directions on the website.  I guess they are only for newer versions or I didn't do things quite right. I selected 'purge', 'jobs', and then it asked for a file daemon so I chose the file daemon that needed a volume.  I thought it would then ask me wh