[Bacula-users] Re: bacula restore problems

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 19:24, Tobias Barth wrote:
> Hi Kern!
> I tried to restore my backup (that was taken on the machine "erwin")
> again (that one where I reconstructed the catalog on another computer
> called "gandalf") again. This time I wanted to restore the most recent
> backup of erwin. I saved the transcript of my console session:
> 
> erwin:~ # ssh gandalf
> root@gandalf's password:
> Last login: Sat Oct 25 19:43:50 2003 from erwin.3.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> Have a lot of fun...
> gandalf:~ # cd /etc
> gandalf:/etc # cd bacula
> gandalf:/etc/bacula # ./console
> Connecting to Director gandalf:9101
> 1000 OK: gandalf-dir Version: 1.32b (14 Oct 2003)
> *restore
> Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
> 
> First you select one or more JobIds that contain files
> to be restored. You will be presented several methods
> of specifying the JobIds. Then you will be allowed to
> select which files from those JobIds are to be restored.
> 
> To select the JobIds, you have the following choices:
>      1: List last 20 Jobs run
>      2: List Jobs where a given File is saved
>      3: Enter list of JobIds to select
>      4: Enter SQL list command
>      5: Select the most recent backup for a client
>      6: Select backup for a client before a specified time
>      7: Enter a list of files to restore
>      8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time
>      9: Cancel
> Select item:  (1-9): 5
> Automatically selected Client: erwin-fd
> The defined FileSet resources are:
>      1: 2  Full Set  2003-10-25 22:09:35
>      2: 3  Catalog  2003-10-25 22:09:35
> Select FileSet resource (1-2): 1
> No Full backup before 2003-10-25 22:36:42 found.
> *
> 
> 
> Is the FileSet "1" that is listed as a "Full Set" no "Full backup before
> 2003-10-25 22:36:42" ?

Yes, apparently there is no full backup for that FileSet. Perhaps
you purged it?  If you do a list jobs, you should see that
there is no Full backup.  Normally this shouldn't happen unless
your retention periods are not setup correctly.

> 
> Another thing that is wired to me:
> 
> On the machine "erwin", I made backups on just 2 volumes. These were
> both scanned by gandalf. Now compare the outputs of the "list jobtotals"
> command on both machines:

By scanned what do you mean?  Do you mean that you used bscan
to create a catalog on gandalf? In my answers that follows, that
is what I assumed.

> 
> ################################
> 
> 
> erwin:/etc/bacula # ./console
> Connecting to Director erwin:9101
> 1000 OK: erwin-dir Version: 1.32b (14 Oct 2003)
> *list jobtotals
> Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
> +------+--------+---------------+---------------+
> | Jobs | Files  | Bytes         | Job           |
> +------+--------+---------------+---------------+
> |    3 |      2 |     6,471,115 | BackupCatalog |
> |    7 | 53,865 | 3,698,167,036 | Client1       |
> |    3 | 51,089 | 3,010,165,319 | RestoreFiles  |
> +------+--------+---------------+---------------+
> +------+---------+---------------+
> | Jobs | Files   | Bytes         |
> +------+---------+---------------+
> |   13 | 104,956 | 6,714,803,470 |
> +------+---------+---------------+
> You have messages.
> 
> 
> ################################
> 
> gandalf:/etc/bacula # ./console
> Connecting to Director gandalf:9101
> 1000 OK: gandalf-dir Version: 1.32b (14 Oct 2003)
> *list jobtotals
> Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
> +------+-------+-------------+---------------+
> | Jobs | Files | Bytes       | Job           |
> +------+-------+-------------+---------------+
> |    1 |     1 |   6,372,920 | BackupCatalog |
> |    4 | 2,604 | 704,544,511 | Client1       |
> +------+-------+-------------+---------------+
> +------+-------+-------------+
> | Jobs | Files | Bytes       |
> +------+-------+-------------+
> |    5 | 2,605 | 710,917,431 |
> +------+-------+-------------+
> *
> 
> 
> ################################
> 
> the job "Client1" seems to have shrinked on the tape.

bscan doesn't 100% reconstruct your catalog, so minor
differences are to be expected.  
However, in the example you show
above, one has 7 jobs and the other 4, so are comparing apples and
oranges -- perhaps you didn't scan all the tapes.

> 
> Ciao
> 
> Tobi