>>>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:59:03 +0100, Christoph Haas said:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I have had a little trouble which I mostly caused myself. :) It's another
> boring tale of "I lost my catalog".
> 
> (Prologue: I'm backing up to a "disk" storage (daily) and a "tape" storage
> (weekly). And the physical disk ran full so I tried to purge and
> remove "volumes" (files) there. Unfortunately I did it wrong and thus
> couldn't restore from disk any more. So I tried to restore from "tape" -
> my safety net. Unfortunately the jobs there had been pruned automatically
> already.)
> 
> So I thought I'd recover the catalog by "bscan"ning the two tapes that I
> know were used for the last full backup. This is where my story begins:
> 
> Attempt 1:
> 
> I scanned the two tapes seperately with commands like:
> 
>       bscan  -V ait01 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -P mypassword \
>               -h my.server.ip -v -s -m /dev/nst0
> 
>       bscan  -V ait05 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -P mypassword \
>               -h my.server.ip -v -s -m /dev/nst0
> 
> I ended up with a job in "list jobs" but with termination code "E". So I
> couldn't restore from it.
> 
> Attempt 2:
> 
> I read the documentation again and found that I can restore two volumes at
> once with the "pipe" syntax so I tried:
> 
>       bscan -V 'ait01|ait05' -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -P mypassword \
>               -h my.server.ip -v -s -m /dev/nst0
> 
> and ran types "ait01" and "ait05" through. Again I ended up with a job with
> code "E".
> 
> Attempt 3:
> 
> I went into the database (PostgreSQL, ASCII encoding) and changed the job
> status to "T" manually and tried to restore with option 5 ("Select the
> most recent backup for a client"). The restore failed due to:
> 
>       "No Full backup before 2009-03-24 13:54:38 found."
> 
> Attempt 4:
> 
> Interestingly it tried to use my disk-based job instead of the desired
> tape-based job. So I used option 11 ("Enter a list of directories to
> restore for found JobIds"), chose the job ID manually and finally
> recovered my long-lost file.
> 
> 
> So I wonder what I did wrong. Of course I wouldn't want to use "bscan" as
> an everyday tool and should take better care of my catalog and volumes.
> But as a last resort I'd like to have a reliable catalog recovery.

I don't know about these bscan issues, but you could try bextract instead.

__Martin

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