On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:01:56PM -0700, Steve Ellis wrote:
> On 6/23/2011 1:31 PM, Troy Kocher wrote:
> > Listers,
> >
> > I'm trying to restore data from medicaid 27, but it appears there are no 
> > files.  There is a file corresponding with this still on the disk, so I 
> > think it's just been purged from the database.
> >
> > Could someone help me thru the restore process when the files are no longer 
> > in the database.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Troy
> >
> There are really only 3 options here that I can think of:
>      1) restore the entire job (probably to an temporary location), then 
> prune the bits you don't want.
>      2) use bscan of the volume to recreate the file list in the db 
> (note that I have only used this when the job itself had been expired 
> from the DB)
>      3) restore a dump of the catalog that contains the file entries 
> that you wanted that have been expired

4) Use bextract.

> I'm pretty sure I've done both #1 and #2, #3 I'd be much more reluctant 
> to just try, as I would worry about clobbering more recent catalog data, 
> unless you used a separate catalog db for the restoration.  Unless the 
> job is really huge, I'd probably do #1, because bscan is (slightly) 
> dodgy, especially for backups that span volumes (IMHO, note that it is 
> _much_ better than not having bscan at all).  Sorry I can't provide more 
> detail, hopefully someone else will be able to help more.
> 
> -se
> 
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