Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] bextract recovery of files after bare-metal restore

2015-07-02 14:51:49
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bextract recovery of files after bare-metal restore
From: Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:49:46 -0400
On 07/02/2015 02:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm finishing up rebuilding a server and just need to get a few files 
> back from a backup. I've got bacula going to the point that I can test 
> the configuration files and not see any errors. However I haven't 
> created any new pools yet. I want to make sure I don't touch the current 
> backup volumes until I get these files back.
> 
> I'm getting this when I try to run bextract:
> 
> root@molar:/etc/bacula# bextract -i /home/copy/restore-shares -V* 
> /home/shares/backup /home/shares/shared
> bextract: butil.c:287 Using device: "/home/shares/backup" for reading.
> 02-Jul 14:11 bextract JobId 0: Warning: acquire.c:239 Read open device 
> "FileStorage" (/home/shares/backup) Volume "*" failed: ERR=dev.c:568 
> Could not open: /home/shares/backup/*, ERR=No such file or directory
> 
> Mount Volume "*" on device "FileStorage" (/home/shares/backup) and press 
> return when ready:

Hi Gary,

The bextract -V option does not take wildcards.  You will need to do:

 -V vol_001|vol_002|vol_003

and so on for the volumes you want to extract from.


Hope this helps.

Bill



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