On Friday 2015-07-31 11:12:36 Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would suggest that you read the sections of the manual that document
> bscan, bls, and bextract.  You will then understand that it is possible
> to do a large number of things without a bsr file.  If you read the
> section of the manual about the bsr, you will understand that from
> simple Job output, you can easily construct a bsr that will restore the
> whole job or even parts of a job.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kern

Hi,

I went trough the manual to refresh my memory and I have found that it
only confirms what I have said in my previous post.
In order to use bextract to extract the exact job from a volume that
contains multiple backup jobs one would need to create and specify a
bsr file.

It is possible to use "-i" and "-e" options but that wouldn't help to
select all the files that belongs to a certain job and if those options
are omitted and no bsr file is specified the complete content of the
volume (all jobs) would be extracted to a specified output directory.


> On 31.07.2015 00:31, Josip Deanovic wrote:
> > On Thursday 2015-07-30 21:51:11 Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> 2015-07-30 11:54 GMT+02:00 Josip Deanovic 
<djosip+news AT linuxpages DOT net>:
> >>> I would like to add that in order to extract the files without the
> >>> bacula database, using the bextract tool, you will also have to
> >>> create
> >>> a bootstrap file.
> >> 
> >> Well. It is not required. It is possible to use bextract without a
> >> bsr
> >> file.
> > 
> > It is possible but without a bootstrap file you wouldn't be able to
> > control what job or a number of jobs gets extracted.
> > If you have multiple backup jobs from multiple systems contained
> > inside
> > the same backup volume (which is common scenario) the restore without
> > a
> > bsr file would make a mess in the specified output directory.
> > 
> > I might be wrong because I didn't try it but it seems to me that this
> > is exactly what would happen (unless you are using one job per volume
> > which is possible but rare practice).

-- 
Josip Deanovic

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