[Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB
Hi, I hope someone can help me with this one. Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation. First the nitty gritty: Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL RHEL 4 Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3 These people have different backups pools namely - Daily with 10 volumes Weekly with 4 volumes Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the catalog except for the bsr files. Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is possible how will I go about doing it? I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar situations but was unable to find anything. Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that I missed it? -- Janco van der Merwe Open Solutions Tel: 011 305 2887 Cell: 083 291 8536 Fax: 0866978875 __ Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB
Hi janco, I think the right command are bscan and bextract, pp 485 on the latest printed manual, pp 513 on the PDF. Cheers' michael lewinger On 10/29/07, Janco van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hope someone can help me with this one. Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation. First the nitty gritty: Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL RHEL 4 Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3 These people have different backups pools namely - Daily with 10 volumes Weekly with 4 volumes Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the catalog except for the bsr files. Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is possible how will I go about doing it? I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar situations but was unable to find anything. Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that I missed it? -- Janco van der Merwe Open Solutions Tel: 011 305 2887 Cell: 083 291 8536 Fax: 0866978875 __ Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Michael Lewinger MBR Computers http://mbrcomp.co.il - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB
Hello, 29.10.2007 09:34,, Janco van der Merwe wrote:: Hi, I hope someone can help me with this one. Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation. Always a bad thing, especially if they don't have good enough documentation :-) First the nitty gritty: Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL RHEL 4 Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3 These people have different backups pools namely - Daily with 10 volumes Weekly with 4 volumes Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the catalog except for the bsr files. Do you have the bsr files that were current when the files they want back were backed up? A recent bsr file won't help you as it doesn't reference older backups. Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is possible how will I go about doing it? I assume you don't have the old bsr files for now. I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar situations but was unable to find anything. Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that I missed it? :-) Ok, I try to be very gently... First, you should know which tapes you need. If you've absolutely no idea which tapes the jobs are on, you have some work before you. First, see if they archive the job report mails or the console log - both are excellent sources to search for the relevant volume names. Once you've got the volumes, you can use bls to see their contents. If you want the contents back in the catalog, you'd use bscan, but only after you fixed the retention times,reloaded the configuration, and probably set the volume attributes so they reflect the retention times you really want. If you don't want the whole stuff in the catalog again, with the output from bls, you can use bextract to locally store the needed files to disk. Does this help you, or do you want some more details? (By the way - there was a discussion started by Maria McKinley a while ago, with the subject old recovery. I think you'll find valuable information in there. That's the most recent elaboration of the solutions to this sort of problems, I think.) Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB
Thanks guys, I'll try and let you know how it worked out. Hello, 29.10.2007 09:34,, Janco van der Merwe wrote:: Hi, I hope someone can help me with this one. Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation. Always a bad thing, especially if they don't have good enough documentation :-) First the nitty gritty: Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL RHEL 4 Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3 These people have different backups pools namely - Daily with 10 volumes Weekly with 4 volumes Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the catalog except for the bsr files. Do you have the bsr files that were current when the files they want back were backed up? A recent bsr file won't help you as it doesn't reference older backups. Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is possible how will I go about doing it? I assume you don't have the old bsr files for now. I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar situations but was unable to find anything. Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that I missed it? :-) Ok, I try to be very gently... First, you should know which tapes you need. If you've absolutely no idea which tapes the jobs are on, you have some work before you. First, see if they archive the job report mails or the console log - both are excellent sources to search for the relevant volume names. Once you've got the volumes, you can use bls to see their contents. If you want the contents back in the catalog, you'd use bscan, but only after you fixed the retention times,reloaded the configuration, and probably set the volume attributes so they reflect the retention times you really want. If you don't want the whole stuff in the catalog again, with the output from bls, you can use bextract to locally store the needed files to disk. Does this help you, or do you want some more details? (By the way - there was a discussion started by Maria McKinley a while ago, with the subject old recovery. I think you'll find valuable information in there. That's the most recent elaboration of the solutions to this sort of problems, I think.) Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
