Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-07-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Ideally, you have a bsr file of the last catalog backup where you also backed up the Bacula configuration files. In addition, ideally, you have a either running or are able to rebuild a Bacula install on another machine or on the machine where you lost the OS. Then it is simply a matter o

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-29 Thread scar
Radosław Korzeniewski wrote on 06/29/2015 12:33 AM: > No, you need a bextract command to restore all your configuration and your > catalog database backup from archive volumes (do you have your bsr files > somewhere, right?). no i don't know where those are but i was able to make some progress...

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-29 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2015-06-29 8:08 GMT+02:00 scar : > this is extremely frustrating! :( > im reading the section about bscan[1], No, you need a bextract command to restore all your configuration and your catalog database backup from archive volumes (do you have your bsr files somewhere, right?). When you

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-29 Thread Randy Katz
I just read your first message. Are you sure you weren't dumping backing up the db dump already? Also you should only need to define the client from which you are trying to restore. On June 29, 2015 1:08:15 PM GMT+07:00, scar wrote: >this is extremely frustrating! :( >im reading the section abo

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-28 Thread Randy Katz
Last I had to use bscan it worked fine by the simple docs...takes a long time though. As for backing up your conf and database that is defined in the example configurations. You should never rely on a backup tool you have not tested the restore procedures with. On June 29, 2015 1:08:15 PM GMT+0

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-28 Thread scar
this is extremely frustrating! :( im reading the section about bscan[1], which is what i need to use right? i dont understand how this all works and its stressing me out. apparently i need to re-define my clients in the bacula-dir.conf? what does that consist of? there is already one Client defi