Re: [bareos-users] Abridged summary of bareos-users@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

[Douglas Hammond]

If you follow the documentation using the current community edition you will run into an issue restoring from the bootstrap file.

The current default RestoreJob does not match the job in the docs https://docs.bareos.org/Appendix/Troubleshooting.html#restoring-when-things-go-wrong

The command line console will not offer the ability to specify the location of your bootstrap file as in the example docs.  You will have to add a new job to directors config such as the following:

Job {
  Name = RestoreFilesFromBootstrap
  Description = "Restore from bootstrap template."
  Type = Restore
  Client = bareos-fd
  FileSet = Catalog
  Pool = Full
  Messages = Standard
  Where = /tmp/bareos-restores
  Bootstrap = /tmp/bootstrap.bsr
}

Running this job will then then let you specify the bsr.  Perhaps the default job or the docs should be updated.

Once I figured that out, following the docs to to use the restored sql file to recover the database went as expected an we were back up and running.

Perhaps the non-community version has a different default restore job that the docs work for?

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Markus Dubois <dubois...@gmail.com>: May 19 11:33PM -0700 okay, so you´re saying i need the bareos database where the backup files are already included? then of course no import is needed, so the approach is to shift the database backup (sql dump) also ...more

Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) <bruno.f...@bareos.com>: May 20 01:19AM -0700 Hi Markus,   Nope in case everything goes wrong, we used the bsr file to extract the sql dump from the volume where the last BackupCatalog job is stored. Then we import the sql dump to a new db ...more

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[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

bextract with bsr we use, not a full restore (as you remember we are in the scenario everything is broken, so don't have a director, not bconsole)