On 12/23/2010 12:56 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 12/23/2010 9:55 AM, staylor wrote:
>>
>> I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 (on Gentoo AMD64) and I'm trying to recover
>> from
>> specifying incorrect file and job retention periods in my client
>> configuration, but I'm having trouble recovering one full backup
>> job. I'm
>> using bscan to update the catalog from the backup volume; bscan
>> appears to
>> complete with no errors, and running "list files jobid=691" in bconsole
>> lists all the files from the backup. However, if I attempt to do a
>> restore
>> using bconsole ("restore jobid=691"), I get the dreaded "For one or
>> more of
>> the JobIds selected, no files were found, so file selection is not
>> possible." message. I'm somewhat at a loss; the file records are
>> apparently
>> in the database and the job hasn't been purged, so I don't understand
>> why
>> the restore command is unable to get the file list.
>>
>> I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I'm using Postgres as the
>> backend database and recently migrated from 8.3.3 to 8.4.4 (using the
>> pg_dumpall/psql sequence to migrate the data). I haven't noticed any
>> issues, and apart from this problem (which I reckon is user error but I
>> can't figure out where I'm going wrong) Bacula appears to be working
>> fine
>> (including being able to list files for other backup jobs which I
>> also had
>> to recover using bscan).
>>
>> For what it's worth, here's the last bit of output from bscan (I
>> don't see
>> any errors in the bscan output; I even ran it once with "-vv" and
>> watched as
>> it processed all the files in the backup):
>>
>> End Job Session Record:
>> JobId : 691
>> VerNum : 11
>> PoolName : borracho_full
>> PoolType : Backup
>> JobName : borracho backup
>> ClientName : borracho-fd
>> Job (unique name) : borracho_backup.2010-07-11_01.00.00_31
>> FileSet : borracho backup
>> JobType : B
>> JobLevel : F
>> JobFiles : 490,068
>> JobBytes : 118,975,605,570
>> StartBlock : 3,028,263,747
>> EndBlock : 3,121,096,503
>> StartFile : 27
>> EndFile : 27
>> JobErrors : 0
>> JobStatus : T
>> Date written : 11-Jul-2010 04:27
>> bscan: bscan.c:1033 Fileset "borracho backup" already exists.
>> bscan: bscan.c:1154 Updated Job termination record for JobId=691
>> Level=Full
>> TermStat=T
>> bscan: bscan.c:1210 11-Jul-2010 04:27
>> JobId: 691
>> Job: borracho_backup.2010-07-11_01.00.00_31
>> FileSet: borracho backup
>> Backup Level: Full
>> Client: borracho-fd
>> Start time: 11-Jul-2010 01:00
>> End time: 11-Jul-2010 04:27
>> Files Written: 490,068
>> Bytes Written: 118,900,889,803
>> Volume Session Id: 57
>> Volume Session Time: 1278186984
>> Last Volume Bytes: 119,018,831,222
>> Termination: Backup OK
>>
>> bscan: bscan.c:1246 Created JobMedia record JobId 691, MediaId 57
>> 16-Dec 10:13 bscan JobId 0: End of Volume at file 27 on device
>> "vchanger0-0"
>> (/var/lib/bacula/vchanger0/0/drive0), Volume "vchanger0_0001_0057"
>> bscan: bscan.c:337-0 ========== JobId=0 ========
>> bscan: bscan.c:966 Updated Media record at end of Volume:
>> vchanger0_0001_0057
>> 16-Dec 10:13 bscan JobId 0: End of all volumes.
>> End of physical tape.
>> bscan: bscan.c:966 Updated Media record at end of Volume:
>> vchanger0_0001_0057
>> bscan: bscan.c:637 End of all Volumes. VolFiles=27 VolBlocks=0
>> VolBytes=119,018,831,222
>> Records added or updated in the catalog:
>> 1 Media
>> 1 Pool
>> 1 Job
>> 490068 File
>>
>> Here's what "list files jobid=691" says about the job (I won't paste
>> in the
>> list of 490K files):
>> +-------+-----------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-----------------+-----------+
>>
>> | jobid | name | starttime | type | level |
>> jobfiles |
>> jobbytes | jobstatus |
>> +-------+-----------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-----------------+-----------+
>>
>> | 691 | borracho backup | 2010-07-11 01:00:00 | B | F |
>> 490,068 |
>> 118,975,605,570 | T |
>> +-------+-----------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-----------------+-----------+
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help anyone can provide, and please let me know if I
>> need to
>> provide more information. The quick fix is just to run another full
>> backup
>> on the system and forget about it, but I'm trying to use this as an
>> opportunity to learn more about Bacula and how to cope when things go
>> wrong.
>
> I googled the message you supplied. I found:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT
> net/msg41594.html
>
>
> Does that help/apply to you?
>
Yes, that is exactly what the problem is; I reset "PurgedFiles" to 0 for
job 691 and all is well. I was completely headed down the wrong path
worrying about of retention intervals and media configuration and stuff
like that, and didn't think to start at the beginning; thanks for doing
my basic research for me.
Scott
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