Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-15 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Il giorno ven, 15/06/2012 alle 11.32 +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp ha scritto: > The recommended procedure is to dump your bacula db offsite (or to > another host) after the backups complete. When you lose your > backup-server or your database, recovering the current bacula state is > just a mysql < dump.

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-15 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:11:26AM +0200, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Il giorno ven, 15/06/2012 alle 04.57 -0400, John Drescher ha scritto: > > bextract or bscan entire database + normal restore > > So, to restore from a tape i'll have to rescan the whole library > and then restore it as usual?

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-15 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Il giorno ven, 15/06/2012 alle 04.57 -0400, John Drescher ha scritto: >> bextract or bscan entire database + normal restore > > So, to restore from a tape i'll have to rescan the whole library > and then restore it as usual? > If you

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-15 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Il giorno ven, 15/06/2012 alle 04.57 -0400, John Drescher ha scritto: > bextract or bscan entire database + normal restore So, to restore from a tape i'll have to rescan the whole library and then restore it as usual? It's very time consuming, why bacula doesn't update it's catalog with files wro

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-15 Thread John Drescher
> Ok, i'll try in this way. > And how can I restore a file from a tapeset, in case of backup server > failure? > bextract or bscan entire database + normal restore > > Actually i'm doing a copy job from a full set stored on disk to a tape > library. In case i'll loose my disk-based storage, how c

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-15 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Il giorno gio, 14/06/2012 alle 21.03 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov ha scritto: > Sure: `bls` to list the tape contents and `bextract` to fetch something > for test. Ok, i'll try in this way. And how can I restore a file from a tapeset, in case of backup server failure? Actually i'm doing a copy job

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:29:58 +0200 > Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > > [...] >> How can I verify the copy? Can I list the contents of my tapes? > Sure: `bls` to list the tape contents and `bextract` to fetch something > for test. > > N

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-14 Thread Simone Martina
Il 14/06/2012 16:29, Gandalf Corvotempesta ha scritto: > How can I verify the copy? Can I list the contents of my tapes? Maybe you can use bscan to scan the tape, the tool returns a DB resultset normally used to retrive tape content due to recover a pruned job. Simone --

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-14 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:29:58 +0200 Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: [...] > How can I verify the copy? Can I list the contents of my tapes? Sure: `bls` to list the tape contents and `bextract` to fetch something for test. Note that `bextract` is *very* slow unless you feed it with a bootstrap file g

[Bacula-users] Verify tape

2012-06-14 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Hi, I have some trouble with a copy job from disk to tape. After months of tests I'm able to run a copy job: 14-Jun 15:43 b01-dir JobId 16002: The following 1 JobId was chosen to be copied: 14334 14-Jun 15:43 b01-dir JobId 16002: Copying using JobId=14334 Job=myclient-job.2012-05-06_00.30.01_26 1