On 15.09.2017 at 17:03 wrote Douglas K. Rand: > I screwed up my migration to Always Incremental backups, and I'm hoping > that there is a path back for me. I had been doing a classic > incremental, differential, and full set of backups to disk. When > switching to AI backups Bareos noticed that there was a full backup > available, and then just continued to use that. Which is way cool. > > And also use the incremental and differential backups also. When > consolidation jobs ran it just did the right thing. Until my screwed up > config caught up with me though. > > I was only retaining the incremental backups (not the AI backups, but > the original incrementals) for 18 days. And differential backups for 21 > days, and full backups for 28 days. But when deploying always > incremental I set: > > always incremental job retention = 30 days > always incremental keep number = 10 > always incremental max full age = 38 days > > Which means it won't run consolidation until there are 30 days of > incrementals, but I was only keeping the old ones for 18 days. > > How did my original testing succeed you ask? Good question! Because I > had somehow disabled pruning when originally setting things up. And did > my testing when nothing was being pruned. Then I noticed my database was > HUGE and catalog backups kept getting bigger. So I turned on pruning. > And then consolidation jobs started to fail. > > Gun, meet foot. Sigh. > > Is there a way back from this? I've extended all of my retention > periods to 40 days and turned off auto pruning. But damage has been done. > > Help please.
As long as your volumes are only pruned, but have not been overwritten (or truncated) you can probably rescan them into the catalog. First you have to prevent, that "empty" volumes get overwritten. (set volstatus to Archive? Attention: retention times from the pool configuration are assigned to the volume upon first use. You have to use the update command to reassign the new settings from the pool configuration) Second, check the contents of the volumes using "bls" Third, use bscan to read the data from the volumes and add them to the catalog again. -- Jörg Steffens [email protected] Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 630693-91 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 630693-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, Jörg Steffens, P. Storz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
