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From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:33 AM
To: James; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore - There were no files inserted into 
the tree, so file selection, is not possible

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:49 AM, James <lists AT netzensolutions DOT com> wrote:
 > I am attempting to restore from bconsole and doing the following
 > http://fpaste.org/paste/8253
 >
 > As you can see I get the following message:
 >
 > Select item:  (1-12): 3
 > Enter JobId(s), comma separated, to restore: 350
 > You have selected the following JobId: 350
 >
 > Building directory tree for JobId 350 ...
 > There were no files inserted into the tree, so file selection
 > is not possible.Most likely your retention policy pruned the files
 >
 > Do you want to restore all the files? (yes|no): no
 >
 >
 > I only want to restore a single dir with a few files in it! I am 
guessing there is no DB to tell Bacula where this dir is located on the 
tape.

 >
 > I know which tape the files are that I want is there any way I can 
put the tape in and browse it's contents?
 >

You need to use bscan to get the file info back in the database.

http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html

John

Also if you use Postgresql make sure that you are using the proper 
encoding.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/12074


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