I think that is where we failed. We don't have bsr file. Our bacula is a default installation from the official Bacula repositories.
I assume that I must enable so that each Job generates a bsr file. With the bsr do I avoid the bscan? Would you only use bextrack? On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 5:48 AM Radosław Korzeniewski < rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote: > Hello, > > wt., 17 maj 2022 o 23:45 Jose Alberto <j.se...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > >> They requested a backup (datapump) of 1.5 TB but from Dec 15, 2021. The >> Job for fileretention had already expired. >> >> The volume was as FULL and with 25 TB of data. >> >> 1) I tried first with bextrack and it's too slow. 6 hours without any >> file. >> > > With a bootstrap file you should be able to restore all what you need very > fast. > How did you execute bextract, what parameters? > > >> >> 2) try using bconsole restore Regexp. I end up with status OK after 10 >> hours, but with 0 files recovered. >> >> 3) Well, I filled myself with patience and went to search "bscan". Which >> lasted 40 hours to complete the recreation of the catalog. And I managed to >> restore the requested 1.5 TB file in just 4 hours. >> >> After this desperate experience but with the expected results. The >> following questions arise. >> >> 1) Is there a way to make the bscan run faster? I had always worked with >> lto6. But lto7 is already different, it's 25TB of data with a FULL tape, I >> assume that the search time increases. >> > > With proper bootstrap files you will not need to use bscan for this. > > >> >> 2) Is there any other way to create the Files in the catalog but only >> indicating the Jobid? >> > > Well, what you did is a full metadata scan of your archive which populated > the catalog database and during restore the director created a bootstrap > file for you and did restore using this file. So if you will have a proper > bootstrap file from start then all data scanning won't be required. > > >> >> Just imagine a BSCAN in lto8 or 9 >> >> 3) What can be the best path for these scenarios? >> >> > Archive all your bootstrap files in any case you will need to restore some > data from your tapes. > > >> Due to this experience we increased the times in fileretention and >> jobretention in the most critical servers. >> > > +1 > > Now, when database storage is huge and very fast, there is no real world > reason to lower file and job retention below volume retention. > And always archive all generated bootstrap files. They will save a lot of > your time. > > best regards > -- > Radosław Korzeniewski > rados...@korzeniewski.net > -- ############################# # Sistema Operativo: Debian # # Caracas, Venezuela # #############################
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