Hello,

On 11.10.2005 09:31, Danie Theron wrote:

Hi , sorry for the long post :)

No worries, I didn't read it :-)

(Only joking)

Wanted to do a test restore , and it seems either my catalog is doing funny things , or I messed up in the Pool defs :

+-------+-------+----------+---------------------+----------------------+-----------+--------------+----------------+ | JobId | Level | JobFiles | StartTime | VolumeName | StartFile | VolSessionId | VolSessionTime | +-------+-------+----------+---------------------+----------------------+-----------+--------------+----------------+ | 2,389 | F | 46,653 | 2005-10-03 19:50:54 | apollousersfull-0007 | 2 | 3 | 1,128,326,240 |
<removed some table output>
| 2,482 | I | 109 | 2005-10-10 21:32:39 | apollousersincr-0011 | 0 | 3 | 1,128,959,605 | +-------+-------+----------+---------------------+----------------------+-----------+--------------+----------------+

That's the list of backup jobs run for that client, right?
It used tapes -full-007, -diff-001, and -incr-0011 and -0014.

Now , correct me if I'm wrong , but shouldn't it use the latest full , diff , as well as ALL the incr vols?

No, only the incremental ones that actually hold relevant data.
Imagine you only change one file each day, and that file is, accordingly, the only one backed up daily. For a restore, you only need the latest volume.

Yet if I do a list media :

*list media pool=apollousersincr
...
*list media pool=apollousersdiff
...
There are many volumes in these pools...

If I need to post my confs I can , but here are the defs for this spesific Pool :
...
Not sure if I'm just paranoid , stupid , or missing something (it's been a long day....)

Erm. Possibly :-)

Somehow you forgot to tell us of your problem - what sort of a restore do you start, and which volumes does it want to use?

If you want to verify what Bacula does, I found it helpful to do things differently:

For example, doing a full restore. I look up the job ids of the last full job, the relevant (i.e. latest) differential one, and all the incrementals past that one.

Then I listthe volumes which contain data from these jobs. Up till now, I could always stop here :-) The next step would be to compare the file lists for incremental jobs to see why incremental volumes don't need to be used - all files stored in the relevant jobs should also exist in later incremental backups.

Hope this helps,

Arno



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions,
and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users


--
IT-Service Lehmann                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions,
and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

Reply via email to