[Bacula-users] Loading file listings from old tapes

Greetings Baculans,

We are running Bacula on Centos 6.5, which means Bacula 5.0.0. Over the past 9 months I had been backing up files with File and Job Retention periods in the Client resource of bacula-dir.conf of 60 days. So our old file listings have been pruned, but I need them back. How do I do it?

I have changed the retention periods to 12 months, and I have done some bscan's of some old tapes. I thought that would repopulate my database with the file names, but it has not. echo "list jobs jobid=190" | bconsole returns "No results to list." on a backup with 49,731 JobFiles.

Any suggestions about how to perform this would be appreciated. Thanks.

We are backing up a number of critical log files that are necessary to recover quickly, accurately, and easily. I was tasked with making restores so easy "even a monkey can do it". So I'm trying to create a document for my coworkers: "The Chimp's Guide to Restores".

My thinking is to create a process so that a user could

Give a file's basename, or substring that is part of a pathname, or a regular _expression_ that matches a file's pathname string.
Give a date range from within which we want to restore the file.
Give where to put the file.

and then they would be presented with a tape to load for the restore, and- voila'! File restored. My idea is to save all job file listings into files by job id, then I can use UNIX tools to scour them as required.

- Mike Schwager

Linux Network Engineer, Mocho Trading LLC

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