On 2007.07.12. 14:16, Frank Sweetser wrote: > 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.
it probably is a good time to remind that files deleted/moved at some point inbetween backups also will be restored. -- Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
