On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM, CDuv <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having an issue for which I couldn't find answers.
> A Full Backup job was pruned by Bacula (obviously during yesterday night 
> because it was there yesterday and gone today) and I need it (for the 
> Incremental to work actually).
> After some research I decided to run a bscan on the volumes listed into the 
> .bsr files of the relevant fd client.
> It did found things and added them into my Catalog: I can tell because the 
> missing Full backup is now listed in brestore's Bat panel and the bconsole's 
> "restore" is not complaining about "No Full backup found prior to..." anymore.
> But the problem is that when trying to restore I get a "No files selected to 
> be restored" as if the volume where empty.
>

Did you deactivate the File and Job retention periods before you ran
bscan so bacula would not prune them again right after the bscan?

>
> Am I doomed? Is there a way for me to get my backup back?
>

You could use bextract to directly extract the files from the volume.

John

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