Re: [Bacula-users] Verify tape

[Uwe S. <uwe...@ni...>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:11:26AM +0200, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 15/06/2012 alle 04.57 -0400, John Drescher ha scritto:
> > bextract or bscan entire database + normal restore
> 
> So, to restore from a tape i'll have to rescan the whole library
> and then restore it as usual?
> 
> It's very time consuming, why bacula doesn't update it's catalog
> with files wrote on tape to avoit a full scan?
> 

The recommended procedure is to dump your bacula db offsite (or to
another host)  after the backups complete. When you lose your
backup-server or your database, recovering the current bacula state is
just a mysql < dump.sql away. 


> Another question:
> actually, during a running copy job I see:
> 
> Running Jobs:
> Console connected at 15-Jun-12 10:30
>  JobId Level   Name                       Status
> ======================================================================
>  16056 Full    myclient-TapeCopyFull.2012-06-15_10.29.43_03 is running
>  16057 Increme  myclient-job.2012-06-15_10.29.43_04 is running
> ====
> 
> job 16056 is ok, but job 16057 should be Full and not Incremental.
> 

I think this is normal, my copy jobs show up as "incremental", too. 


All the best, Uwe