Hi,
Yah, i do have bacula installed on this box and running of bscan entered
the data in to my catalog, restiration proceeded smoothly after that.
Thanks.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Reinehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] restoring without a bsr file or catalog
> On Friday 15 September 2006 18:07, Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've been given a tape that has some data saved by bacula i believe
>> the
>> version was 1.38.4 or so. There is no .bsr file and no catalog, i have a
>> tape and that's it, it has two jobs on it. He wants me to try to recover
>> the files in the second job, i'm not sure if it's possible to do without
>> a
>> .bsr or catalog file. What i'd like to do if it's doable is recover his
>> second job first, make a .bsr and a catalog and then do the first job the
>> same way and give him his tape, data, two .bsr's and two catalogs, so he
>> won't have to do this again. As a side note i have no idea how he lost
>> his
>> .bsr files and the catalog was not in use when these backups were taken.
>> I'd appreciate any assistance.
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>
> Dave,
>
> Since no one else has jumped in, I'll take a stab at this although I'm
> nowhere
> near as knowledgeable or experienced as others on this list.
>
> First, you don't mention if you have bacula installed. If you do, then you
> should be able to run bscan
> (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#19205) to scan
> the tape & update your catalogue with the volume information, i.e., volume
> label, job information, files, etc. Once you have scanned it in, then you
> should be able to run a regular restore job to extract the files that you
> need from the tape.
>
> If you do not have an available bacula instillation to work with, then you
> should be able to obtain a copy of bextract to extract
> (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#19140) what
> you
> need. (I'm not sure, but it looks as if you would have to download the
> entire
> application in order to get bextract.)
>
> HTH!
>
> cmr
>
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