I'm not sure if this is helpful, but you can use the console without
actually going into the console, so to speak.
In a script or at a shell prompt:
bconsole <<EOF
list files job=nn
EOF
HTH,
Greg.
K. M. Peterson wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I was trying to avoid using the console - it seemed that it would be
> cleaner if there was some way of getting this information out of the
> verify job or if there was a parameter in the messages resource that
> would do this. Again, both these will give me files either not backed
> up or not comparing to the backup, I was hoping that someone had a way
> to get the list of files that were backed up.
>
> What I would need to do is use llist rather than list (easier to parse,
> less likely to change in a way to break a script), but then there's more
> work in getting that last jobid (although this isn't an issue if the
> script is run as a Run After Job with the right parameter). It sure
> does seem like there'd be a way to do this with Verify at least. That's
> what I was hoping for. Cleaner to me means less likely to break, and
> fewer things to go wrong - and I'd like to put as much of the logic as
> possible in the conf file as opposed to, well, a hack using bconsole.
>
> Doesn't look like this is possible. Since I decided that I also want to
> report on jobs on a per-volume basis, I may end up writing SQL as well...
>
> Again, I appreciated your getting back to me...
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Thomas Krwawecz III <tom AT bluegravity DOT
> com
> <mailto:tom AT bluegravity DOT com>> wrote:
>
> "list files jobid=nn" from bconsole isn't working?
>
> Thomas Krwawecz III
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> *From:* K. M. Peterson <mailto:kmp.lists+bacula-users AT gmail DOT
> com>
> *To:* Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
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> *Sent:* Sunday, May 04, 2008 5:11 PM
> *Subject:* [Bacula-users] A reasonable way to get a list of
> files backed up ina job?
>
> Hi all,
>
> We're migrating to Bacula from a fairly random system of
> backups, many of which used tar jobs being run on servers and
> then copying them to a "backup machine" (via NFS) where they
> were manually migrated to another medium. (You don't want to
> hear what that other medium is...)
>
> To move this migration along, I'd like to have a way to
> determine the files that were backed up in job, so that I can
> delete them. This way, I could migrate these tar files over to
> our bacula machine, and then delete them once I know they are on
> tape. Generally, the names are date-tagged in some way, but
> this isn't something that I want to rely on (in case the copy
> process gets hosed, and there are 'old' files that actually
> haven't been copied by Bacula).
>
> If there were some reasonable way to get a list from Bacula of
> the files in a particular job, that would help. I see that I
> can run a Verify job (say, type DiskToCatalog) and get a list of
> the files that have changed or otherwise differ from the state
> of those on the backup set, or I can get a list of files that
> were /not/ saved or encountered errors using parameters in a
> message resource ("skipped" or "notsaved" types) in a particular
> backup job. This is the converse of what I'd like to have.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to determine in this way what
> files /were/ backed up, or haven't been changed since a backup
> was made.
>
> What I'm doing now is creating a sentinel file in the
> RunBeforeJob and then deleting all files "older" than this on
> successful completion (in a RunAfterJob) script. This works,
> but it's not something that I'm particularly comfortable with -
> I can't think of how it might get screwed up, but I'd rather
> again have a positive state to check rather than the lack of a
> negative state. And, I presume that I could write an SQL query
> of some sort and query the database - perhaps through a script
> talking to bconsole - but that strikes me as again not really
> plain enough for whomever takes over management of this task
> from me when I'm done with it.
>
> Is there something that I'm missing here, either in my general
> approach or in how the particular code in the daemons is
> implemented? I'm running 2.2.8 on OpenSUSE 10.2 with MySQL.
>
> Thanks!
> _KMP
> Boston
>
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