Ivan Adzhubey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using bacula for 5 years now and finally comes the first time I
> need to do a major restore from our tapes. I read the tutorial, tried the
> instructions and it seemingly worked as designed (I haven't run actual
> restore yet) but I am not sure which exactly files it was going to restore. I
> have two pools of tapes: one for full backups (run monthly) and another one
> for incremental (run every night). The 'restore all' command, when instructed
> to find JobIds of the most recent backup for a client, correctly located and
> listed all relevant full backups plus all incremental ones. It then proceeded
> creating directory tree and in the process went through both latest full
> backup and all incrementals since. So I assume this tree contains the latest
> snapshot? Or should I actually run two restores to get all the latest files:
> one for last full set and another one for all incrementals? I guess this is a
> stupid question but I'd really appreciate if someone could enlighten me since
> going through 50,000+ files manually to check the versions restored is really
> not an option.
Bacula will handle making sure that only the latest version of each file is
restored, so you only have to do it once.
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