Martin

Thanks for the pointer. Looks like it's the way to go.

cby


Martin Simmons wrote:
> 
>>>>>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:40:33 -0700 (PDT), cby  said:
>> 
>> Running bacula on Centos 5.2 I have a tape volume which has more than one
>> occurrence of the same filename as a result of appending to tape. I
>> needed
>> to restore the first file.
>> 
>> I fired up bextract  (standard bacula restore is not appropriate in this
>> case) which restored the first occurrence of the file as expected.
>> However,
>> instead of halting after restoring the file, bextract continued to the
>> end
>> of the tape and found a second occurrence with the same filename which it
>> duly restored replacing the originally restored file.
>> 
>> Bearing in mind that the file is over 300GB (Veeam backup) I want to
>> avoid a
>> repeat of this exercise without being able to halt bextract after the
>> initial file restore. I have looked through the bacula documentation and
>> usual places but there does not appear to be an obvious way to instruct
>> bextract to restore the first occurrence of a file.
>> 
>> Fortunately the two files were written some distance apart on the tape so
>> I
>> can kill the bextract process once the first file has been restored. Not
>> exactly elegant but it should work.
>> 
>> I'd be grateful for any suggestions in how bextract itself can achieve
>> this
>> without recourse to my sledgehammer approach!
> 
> It can be done by creating a bootstrap file:
> 
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION003962000000000000000
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bootstrap_File.html#BootstrapChapter
> 
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