useful bacula commands

find out what was in a backup run

• get the job-id from the bacula mail
• run the following on bacula database (currently postgresql-manda-01.debian.org) select path,name from filename inner join file on filename.filenameid=file.filenameid inner join path on path.pathid=file.pathid where file.jobid=$JOBID;

reschedule a backup run

• check the debian-admin-bacula archive on master for failed runs
• if the issue is intermittent or fixed, log in to dinis
• run bconsole
• type "run", and pick the host
• if necessary adjust "level", then start the backup

do a mass reschedule on what is needed

(cd /etc/bacula/conf.d && for i in *; do h="${i%%.conf}"; /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/dsa-check-bacula -w 17h $h > /dev/null|| echo "run $h yes"; done) |tee incruns

Restoring specific files

• Login to the bacula director dinis.debian.org
• run sudo bconsole
• Use the restore command
• Choose "find the job ids of the most recent backup for a client" (9)
• Choose the server
• Choose "enter a list of directories to restore for found job ids" (11)
• Login to the server
• Look at the files in /var/tmp/bacula-restores/
• Clean up the files in /var/tmp/bacula-restores/