Hello, On Sunday 30 July 2006 19:57, Chris Crowther wrote: > Hey peeps,
What in the heck is a "peep" ? > > So, because I cocked up my config and didn't notice, Bacula purged a job > pretty much right after finishing it, mea culpa. > > This wouldn't be a major problem if it wasn't for the fact that the job > in question was the contents of "Documents and Settings" on my > workstation, because I was doing a re-install...and I noticed afterwards > (yeah, mea culpa again). > > I've removed the two tapes it used from the library, so it can't > physicaly lose the data. I'm wondering if I have anyway of getting the > data back off the tapes. I also took a copy of the pgsql data directory > as soon as a I realised; I've taken at look at the page files and it > seems like the data may still be there (pgsql hadn't vacuumed yet). > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? Read the end of the Bacula Console Restore Command chapter of the current development online manual. It is entitled something like "Restoring When Things Go Wrong". If I am not mistaken, it addresses this problem -- providing you at least have the job report for that job. > Or am I just going to > have to chalk this up as one of those lessons that mean you don't do it > again. Hopefully not. > > In many ways I'm just glad I am super paranoid and copied the contents > of my development trees to another system as well. > > -- > Chris Crowther > Developer > J&M Crowther Ltd. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
