Re: [Bacula-users] disabling 'accurate' for a restore

2009-08-13 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:05:14 +1000, James Harper said:
> 
> I do a full backup once a week, and then incremental backups for the
> rest of the week.
> 
> MSSQL is configured to back up transaction logs every day and keep the
> backup for 3 days (by which time it would have been backed up). It's
> Thursday today and I want to restore the most recent full backup
> (Saturday night) and all the subsequent transaction logs, but of course
> because accurate backup is on I'm going to have to do multiple restores
> at various points - restore as at Monday night to get Saturday + Sunday
> logfiles, then restore at Wednesday night to get Monday + Tuesday
> logfiles, etc. Restoring as at last nights backup will only give me the
> logfiles that existed at the time.

So why are you using accurate backups for this case?

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Re: [Bacula-users] disabling 'accurate' for a restore

2009-08-13 Thread ebollengier

Hello James,


James Harper wrote:
> 
> I do a full backup once a week, and then incremental backups for the
> rest of the week.
> 
> MSSQL is configured to back up transaction logs every day and keep the
> backup for 3 days (by which time it would have been backed up). It's
> Thursday today and I want to restore the most recent full backup
> (Saturday night) and all the subsequent transaction logs, but of course
> because accurate backup is on I'm going to have to do multiple restores
> at various points - restore as at Monday night to get Saturday + Sunday
> logfiles, then restore at Wednesday night to get Monday + Tuesday
> logfiles, etc. Restoring as at last nights backup will only give me the
> logfiles that existed at the time.
> 
> Is there a way to tell Bacula that you want to restore the backups as if
> accurate was not enabled at the time?
> 

No i don't think. You can do multiple restore, or select files with a tool
like brestore or bat.
It can be a good idea from time to time, i will add it to my todolist.

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