Dirk H. Schulz schrieb:
> I have to retrieve files from a very old backup. The bacula daemon has not 
> run for months on the backup server, and the files to retrieve are also 
> months old.
> If I would start up the bacula director it would immediately start pruning 
> the old file entries from the database and marking the tapes overwritable. 
> But I have to get these files first.
> 
> My first bet would be to enter the database and manipulate the retention 
> date of files, volumes, pools, etc. before starting bacula director. Is 
> this the correct approach to the problem? And if yes, what date(s) exactly 
> do I have to manipulate (I did not find out from the docs which dates are 
> calculated by bacula director at runtime and which are fixed database 
> entries)?
> Of course I could stroll throught the database tables and see what I find 
> instead of asking here but I am afraid to manipulate the wrong things and 
> loose data.
> 
> Any hint or help is appreciated.

You could also try setting the system time back in the past. Maybe
to the date of the last boot? You have to be sure that no ntpd,
ntpdate, chrony... daemons are running and correcting the time.

Ralf

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