Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-24 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Shawn Robert Lesniak wrote: > Greetings, > I am the system administrator at a lab at UCR. We have a ~800GB RAID > 5 array that was being backed up using bacula that suffered severe data > loss (mostly due to reiserfsck) that was being backed up to an Exabyte > tape changer

Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread John Drescher
The link should be http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_Consol_Restor_Comman.html#SECTION0002112000 John On 7/23/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 July 2006 00:20, Shawn Robert Lesniak wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > > Most user

Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 24 July 2006 00:20, Shawn Robert Lesniak wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Most users (I hope) including myself, back the database up nightly after doing > > the backups, and when we back it up, we write the bootstrap file to a > > different machine. With the boot

Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread Shawn Robert Lesniak
Thanks everyone, I recovered the database and the rest of the files are being recovered now. Afterward, I'll set up the database to be replicated onto another server so I won't have this problem in the future. Shawn Lesniak

Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread Bill Moran
Shawn Robert Lesniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Alternatively, if you were backing up your database in a separate backup > > job, > > it is possible to build your own bootstrap file from the log output and a > > little detective work of exactly wh

Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread Shawn Robert Lesniak
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Most users (I hope) including myself, back the database up nightly after doing > the backups, and when we back it up, we write the bootstrap file to a > different machine. With the bootstrap file, you can reload the database > without a database. The bo

[Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread Shawn Robert Lesniak
Greetings, I am the system administrator at a lab at UCR. We have a ~800GB RAID 5 array that was being backed up using bacula that suffered severe data loss (mostly due to reiserfsck) that was being backed up to an Exabyte tape changer system. Unfortunately, the bacula database happened to be

Re: [Bacula-users] restore without database

2006-07-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 23 July 2006 22:44, Shawn Robert Lesniak wrote: > Greetings, >I am the system administrator at a lab at UCR. We have a ~800GB RAID > 5 array that was being backed up using bacula that suffered severe data > loss (mostly due to reiserfsck) that was being backed up to an Exabyte > tape