Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore issue on Bacula 1.38.11 on Solaris 10.

2008-11-14 13:05:05
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore issue on Bacula 1.38.11 on Solaris 10.
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:29:39 -0500
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Louis-Andre Larose wrote:
> 
>      Hi,
> 
>     I have a strange error when I try to restore a job on Bacula 1.38.11
> on Solaris 10 ( i know this is old, but it has been running for 18
> months without a glitch ) .
> 
>     I have to restore part of a fileset from a Bacula job that  is 55GB
> and contains 2,828,311 files.
>     The file list creation takes about 4h hours to process and the list
> is missing a lot of files in the list. The restore inserted only 443,973
> files of the 2,828,311 .
> 
>     I suspect the process does not have enough memory to process the
> whole list.
>     Is there something I can do to give the director more memory to work
> with?
> 
>     Is there another way to restore the files?
> 
>     below is a log of my session:
> 
>     *restore
> 
>      First you select one or more JobIds that contain files
> 
>     to be restored. You will be presented several methods
> 
>     of specifying the JobIds. Then you will be allowed to
> 
>     select which files from those JobIds are to be restored.
> 
>     
> 
>     To select the JobIds, you have the following choices:
> 
>          1: List last 20 Jobs run
> 
>          2: List Jobs where a given File is saved
> 
>          3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select
> 
>          4: Enter SQL list command
> 
>          5: Select the most recent backup for a client
> 
>          6: Select backup for a client before a specified time
> 
>          7: Enter a list of files to restore
> 
>          8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time
> 
>          9: Find the JobIds of the most recent backup for a client
> 
>         10: Find the JobIds for a backup for a client before a specified
> time
> 
>         11: Enter a list of directories to restore for found JobIds
> 
>         12: Cancel
> 
>     Select item:  (1-12): 3
> 
>     Enter JobId(s), comma separated, to restore: 16435
> 
>     You have selected the following JobId: 16435
> 
>     
> 
>     Building directory tree for JobId 16435 ...  +++++++
> 
>     1 Job, 443,973 files inserted into the tree.
>    
> 
>     You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and
> 
>     remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added,
> unless
> 
>     you used the "all" keyword on the command line.
> 
>     Enter "done" to leave this mode.
>     .......
> 
>     Thank you for any help you can provide.

You've said absolutely nothing about your database, not even what type.
I forget whether this is one of those cases, but in many cases how that
is configured makes a major difference.

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