Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] restore of old files

2011-06-23 06:05:34
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] restore of old files
From: Andre Lorenz <andre AT ns-cw DOT net>
To: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:02:07 +0200
hi,

that's a big problem, if i try to select the whole job it will start
restoring ~18TB.

so i think i have to catalog the media :-( and rebuild the  database. is
there any other solution available ?

thanks
andre

On 23.06.2011 01:44, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Andre Lorenz wrote:
>
>> On 22.06.2011 13:22, Jeremy Maes wrote:
>>> Op 22/06/2011 12:40, Andre Lorenz schreef:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> i'd like to restore old files, but the files are not shown up :-(
> What do you mean by this?  You do a restore and the files do not show up?
>
> If so, are you:
>
> * looking on the restored-to-host?
> * looking in the restore-to-diredtory?
>
> If the problem is you cannot select the files, try restoring the entire job.
>
>
>
>>>> i can see the old backup job, but if i would like to select this job,
>>>> there are no files shown up for this.
>>>>
>>>> the retention period for this job is 1 year, also the media will be kept
>>>> for 1 year.
>>> What is the File Retention period set to?
>>>
>>> There are 3 levels at which bacula will prune database info: file
>>> level (all separate files from a job), job level (the full job) and
>>> volume level (all jobs on a given volume). If your File Retention is
>>> set to 3 months (for example) and autoprune is enabled than after
>>> those 3 months you'll only be able to restore the full job, not
>>> separate files.
>>>
>>>> does i have to inventory the media again, for getting the right version
>>>> of the file?
>>>> the backup was made in February this year.
>>>>
>>>> thanks in advance
>>>> Andre
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeremy
>>>
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>> on the client:
>>  File Retention = 360 days            # 30 days
>>  Job Retention =  12 months            # six months
>> on pool:
>>  Volume Retention = 365 days
>>
>> this means that normally the files should be in database.
>>
>
> We will take your word for that, given we don't know how old the backups are.
>




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