[Bacula-users] Restore from dead client [SOLVED]

2014-09-10 Thread Kenny Noe
All, First I'd like to express my appreciation to this list and all who replied / read my novice ramblings and pleas for help. All responses were a real pick me up while I was in despair. [sorry if this is long winded] Ok now to the fix... It really boiled down to the damn fifo and my lack of

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Kenny Noe
Dan, Thanks for the reply. I tried this this morning and still failed the restore. I see during the Status Storage - Storage_Bluewhale where the Running Jobs section shows Files=0, Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0. However in the Device Status section, Device File_bluewhale is mounted and the Total Bytes

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Heitor Faria
Kenny, First of all, are you using the run command to submit a prior configured Restore Job? I think this is not advisable, since there are several restore variables that only the restore command can fetch. Did you try to restore the same file with the restore command? Regards, On Mon, Sep 8,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Kenny Noe
Heitor, Hi! Thanks for the reply I'm utilizing a console and the Bacula console and executing a restore command then walking thru the prompts given. What is this run command? Yes, I believe I'm trying to restore the same file, but it's not working. Thoughts? Thanks--Kenny On Mon,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Heitor Faria
Kenny, 1. Could you reproduce the input you used at the restore submission? 2. Can you tell the client bluewhale version? Regards, On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Kenny Noe knoe...@gmail.com wrote: Heitor, Hi! Thanks for the reply I'm utilizing a console and the Bacula console and

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Kenny Noe
Heitor, Pardon my ignorance, but i don't follow your questions... My original client bluewhale experienced a terrible HD failure thus the need to recover. I have been changing the client and where parameters when walking thru the restore procedure. When the restore process runs it creates the

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Heitor Faria
Kenny, Ok. Sorry for the confusion about the bluewhale client. This is why we need your full restore command, to see exactly what's happening.. You should not change your Backup Client at the restore, even if the restore is dead. You should change your Restore Client. It would be nice to inform

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Heitor Faria
You should not change your Backup Client at the restore, even if the *CLIENT* is dead. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-08 Thread Dan Langille
Kenny: Please run the restore job again and then copy/paste the entire session from bcsonole. Thank you. On Sep 8, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Heitor Faria hei...@bacula.com.br wrote: Kenny, Ok. Sorry for the confusion about the bluewhale client. This is why we need your full restore command, to

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On 09/07/2014 02:38 AM, Kenny Noe wrote: Dan, Appreciate the reply Yes this is exactly what I want to do. However when I try to just do a simple restore, the job finishes with the error previously given. Any suggestions to do this would be appreciated. Working with pipes or fifos is

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
I suggest removing the before after scripts. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ On Sep 6, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Kenny Noe knoe...@gmail.com wrote: Dan, Appreciate the reply Yes this is exactly what I want to do. However when I try to just do a simple restore, the job finishes

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-06 Thread Dan Langille
On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Kenny Noe knoe...@gmail.com wrote: Just to update my plea for help. My Bacula server is hosted on a Ubuntu 11.10 server Bacula Version is 5.2.2 Problem - Unable to perform a restore of a backup to a different client / location The error given is : 05-Sep

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-06 Thread Dan Langille
On Sep 5, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Kenny Noe knoe...@gmail.com wrote: Birre, Thanks for the reply. I guess this is where I get lost... The fifo is reading a file that was created in the pre-process called mail.tar. The mail.tar is made from the following directories /opt/zimbra and

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-06 Thread Kenny Noe
Dan, Appreciate the reply Yes this is exactly what I want to do. However when I try to just do a simple restore, the job finishes with the error previously given. Any suggestions to do this would be appreciated. Thanks--Kenny On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dan Langille

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-05 Thread Kenny Noe
Just to update my plea for help. My Bacula server is hosted on a Ubuntu 11.10 server Bacula Version is 5.2.2 Problem - Unable to perform a restore of a backup to a different client / location The error given is : 05-Sep 09:48 BS01-DIR1 JobId 12852: Start Restore Job

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-05 Thread Kenny Noe
Birre, Thanks for the reply. I guess this is where I get lost... The fifo is reading a file that was created in the pre-process called mail.tar. The mail.tar is made from the following directories /opt/zimbra and /var/mail/zimbra. This is where the Zimbra files and mailstore were kept.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-09-05 Thread Kenny Noe
Birre, There are 2 scripts, one does a make backup and the other is a mail restore. Both scripts are almost exactly the same with one completing a tar cpf and the other a tar xpf --Kenny On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Birger Blixt bi...@virtualgate.org wrote: 2014-09-05 23:48, Kenny Noe

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Simmons
The error is 12-Aug 09:51 BS01-FD1 JobId 12560: Error: create_file.c:292 Could not open /nas/bacula/data/backups/mail/fifo/mail.tar: ERR=Interrupted system call which is strange. Is /nas/bacula/data/backups/mail/fifo/mail.tar a normal file or are you trying to restore into a FIFO? You could

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-08-12 Thread Kenny Noe
Phil, Thanks for the reply. So now the job runs and reports successful but all I get is a empty file. Here is the output from the log file : 12-Aug 09:50 BS01-DIR1 JobId 12560: Start Restore Job Restore_mail_bluewhale.2014-08-12_09.50.07_59 12-Aug 09:50 BS01-DIR1 JobId 12560: Using Device

[Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-08-11 Thread Kenny Noe
Hi all, I am in desperate need of help. I have a server that had died. It was a faithful bacula client and I have backups I wish to recover. However when I run the restore command bacula waits on the Client. What am i failing to understand? can I not restore files to a /tmp location from a

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from dead client

2014-08-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/11/14 20:22, Kenny Noe wrote: Hi all, I am in desperate need of help. I have a server that had died. It was a faithful bacula client and I have backups I wish to recover. However when I run the restore command bacula waits on the Client. What am i failing to understand? can I