Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> Maria McKinley wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> A while ago I moved bacula from one machine to another. I basically
>> started from scratch, and didn't bother to move over the old database.
>> Now, I need to retrieve a directory from tapes from the old database. I
>> have two choices, and I am wondering which is easier. I know that the
>> files are somewhere on a stack of four tapes, so I could bscan and
>> rebuild the catalog for those tapes. My second choice is that the
>> machine with the old database on it is still on the network, but not
>> attached to the tapedrive directly, so conceivably I could just tell it
>> where the new storage daemon is and maybe have it interact with the tape
>> drive through the new storage daemon, to get the files. Would this work,
>> and would it be easier than using bscan?
>>
>> thanks,
>> maira
>>
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> I snip all the thread with Arno.
>
> Time ago, I've to do exactly the same. But doesn't need to recreate
> informations in catalog.
> So I've use bscan to locate the file extracting the list to a file (without
> -m and -s ).
> Iv'e use a text editor to extract the list of files I'm looking for.
> And after that I've use bextract with the include file inside a temp
> directory.
>
> Prerequist is that I knew where file reside (in which vol) and the volume
> name.
>
> Perharps You could use directly bextract if you know what file you want...
>
> Hope this could help you a bit.
>
>
>
My mistake : don't use bscan but bls ( the ls command for bacula volume )
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