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Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring files from a failed full job?

2013-10-10 04:08:16
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring files from a failed full job?
From: Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerkamp AT nionex DOT net>
To: Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:05:19 +0200
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:57:46AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello Uwe,
> 
> The answer to your question depends a bit on what happened
> when the job failed.  If you were spooling the file attributes, it is
> likely nothing was stored in the catalog.  If there are some file
> entries for the failed job that are stored in the catalog, then
> yes, of course, you can recover most if not all of those files.
> 
> During the restore command, for an automatic restore (option
> 5), Bacula will never select jobs that failed.  However, if you select
> another option (e.g. 7) that allows you to specify individual jobids,
> you can specify the jobid of the failed job, select the files you want
> to restore and then restore them.  Most likely all files that are in
> the catalog can be restored, but it is possible that the last one
> may have problems.
> 
> Best regard,
> Kern

Thanks Kern, we don't use attribute spooling so what you describe is
exactly what I had hoped for ;-)

All the best, Uwe 


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