On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry to "spam" the list, but just wanted to write a followup to my > previous mails (in case someone else experiences the same problems). > > I've restarted bextract with '-p' option, and I got backup files back. No > errors were printed, it just mentioned at the end "bextract Error: 5 block > read errors not printed.". I assume there were errors during restore, but > I'll yet have to figure out which files were corrupted (there are few dozen > thousand files restored). > > What puzzled me, though, is the restore process 'logic'. I first saw > bextract restore files from April 4th (which was the 1st full backup date). > Then it "did its thing", and restored them once again. Then it started > restoring April 5th, 6th, then displayed that it's extracting April 4th > files all over again. Then it would restore files from few more following > days, then April 4th again. And so on, until it restored everything til May > 11th. I only wonder if this is intended behaviour (I do make 1 full > backup/month, 1 differential/week, incrementals for the rest). > > Anyway, even if I just installed bacula for testing, it ended up saving my > ass big time. Although I've lost all bacula related files, except volume > file, it was still possible to restore things back. > > I've only lost 1 day worth of files (hdd crashed before scheduled 1AM > backup, argh), but it's just a minor annoynance comparing to what would've > happened if bacula was not running. > > One BIIIG thank you to developers of this great tool :)
Thanks. Two comments. 1. You probably should check your tape/drive since such block checksum errors indicate bad media, bad controller, loose connectors, bad drive, memory errors, ... 2. You should write a bootstrap file for each backup and save it to an alternate machine. The way you ran bextract, it will just extract *everything* it finds on the tape. If you feed it a bootstrap file, it will do a much better job of extracting only what is needed -- this is *especially* important if you have done several full backups, you probably don't want the first one restored. I'll look into printing a bit more information when the -p option accepts a "bad block". > > Vanja > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
