On 01/29/2010 08:12 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> so i did read about these volume utilities and did use half of them during >> my experience with bacula, however: >> - using bscan into catalog (accoriding to doc's) scanned for a while, said >> database updated, however running restore complain again about records are >> being pruned (note my volumes are all set/marked as "used" the ones i am >> trying to access) >> >> > Being marked as used should have nothing at all to do with the ability > to restore data. Unless the volumes are getting pruned automatically. > > >> dbcheck seem to do lot's of clean up rather finding something that may have >> been corrupt (which i think happen during upgrade) >> >> after all i did restore with regexp, but still would be cool to find a >> solution as to where are the records from db. >> >> (i could and may, will do a clean 5.0 install or something and rescan all >> tapes back if there are no work around in this area) >> >> > So you are using 5.0.0. There were several bugs found since its > release. One weird one is on first run bacula says its pruning volumes > that are around 40 years old. > > >> are there any more info i can provide to help this troubleshoot ? >> >> > Please post the messages you get when you try to restore any of this > data. Along with any log info that says it is pruning. Like you > mentioned in the section about using bscan. > > John >
let me rephrase all this.... isn't my problem that "job retention" set to short after all? thus volumes are in tact and not purged but any restore beyond 6 months (which fall in on the month we upgraded, plain coincident) need a jobid info and file records which has been pruned ? i am correct? kiryl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
