Hi, two or three weeks ago murphy[*] gave me the pleasure of freeing a bit over 100GB of data from my hard disks; my bacula setup at that point - and even now - had to reach a stable point beyond testing the setup.
Still, I have gathered quite a few backups which I tested with bscan, which each hold about 15GB of different data from different dates. Exabyte: /dev/nrst0 FileStorage2: /mnt/new2/bacula.old FileStorage3: /mnt/new2/bacula.old I've taken the following tests until now: - gathered all volume names - bscan -m -V <volume> -v device - later bscan -s -m -V <volume> -v device Now I stumbled the first time, some of the data clashed with a file retention policy. I need a small explanation: - is this retention saved as metadata in the storage medium or just a policy in my bacula-sd.conf? - how do I override it? Next, I'm trying to get full file/client listings for each of the media. Just HOW do I do that? Last, I want to do a full restore of all data in my media to /mnt/ and gather what's usuable. - What do You recommand as the best way to go at that? - This is not all-critical, I've still got the data on a old raid5 set, but this is currently out of reach[*again]. Thanks for reading and maybe some pointers, florian [*]NetBSD and FreeBSD disklabels are a little incompatible, while You can mount Your slices or run fsck with the system up and running ignoring a load of error messages, a full fsck in single-user mode has had a different view of my disk and emptied it with unparalleled enthusiasm. my fault, but for me it's become a fact in life that I'll loose 25% of my data every three or for years, no matter what kind of backups I employ. raidsets will fail, dlt's will be torn and slices will be overwritten snapshots fail and dvd's will -of course- be lost. it's ok. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
