[CentOS] Bacula Restore

Wed Oct 19 21:01:20 UTC 2016
Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 01:20:49PM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Hi list,
> another question about bacula, but this time about restoring backups.
> 
> I've a server that I must backup every day. My plan is:
> 
> from mon to sat incrimental backup
> and on sunday full backup.
> 
> When I will perform a restore I  must restore from last valid full backup
> and then all valid incremental backup from last backup to specific date.
> 
> This server has aweb managed application where user can update data or
> delete data.
> 
> Suppose that after a full backup, on monday the user upload a file and
> incrimental backup is performed. On tuesday the user remove the uploaded
> file and backup is performed.
> 
> Suppose that I want perform a restore of these jobs. I restore full,
> mon-incr and I found on restore path file uploaded on monday. When restoring
> tuesday incr (where the uploaded file was not present), on restore path I
> will found the uploaded file or bacula remove it with tuesday incremental
> backup restore?
> 
Don't know about bacula, but with amanda you restore to the
state that existed as of a particlar date.  Restore as of Sunday
or Tuesday the file is not in the restore.

jon
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