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Hallo,
I've got a (hopefully not so) unusual problem.
I need look for a text string inside some text files that I've backed up
with bacula.
The first, naive solution that comes to mind is of course to extract
portion of the backup archive (e.g. going back in time), one fd-client
at-a-time, do the search and then delete the "restored" files if the
string is not found.
But this process would be highly time-consuming and inefficient FWIKT.

Searching around the 'net I found a potentially very useful object,
named BaculaFS. Unfortunately it's requirements include pretty recent
versions of postgresql (the db I currently use) and other libraries.
Because of this I haven't been able to install it on my director host.
If possible, I'd like to avoid upgrading this host just for the sake of
installing baculafs...

Does anybody have a hint about how to solve this ?

Thank you in advance to anyone who'll answer.

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Post Searching through backed-up files 
Hello,

2011/12/2 Marcello Romani <mromani < at > ottotecnica.com ([email]mromani < at > ottotecnica.com[/email])>
Hallo,
    I've got a (hopefully not so) unusual problem.
I need look for a text string inside some text files that I've backed up
with bacula.
The first, naive solution that comes to mind is of course to extract
portion of the backup archive (e.g. going back in time), one fd-client
at-a-time, do the search and then delete the "restored" files if the
string is not found.
But this process would be highly time-consuming and inefficient FWIKT.

If you backup to disk volumes that you can search trough volume files. When you find a location (address) inside a volume then you can compare it with a jobmedia table in database. As a result you will get a jobid.
In this case I assume that you don't perform any compression or encryption.
 
best regards

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Post Searching through backed-up files 
Il 07/12/2011 13:29, Radosław Korzeniewski ha scritto:
Hello,

2011/12/2 Marcello Romani <mromani < at > ottotecnica.com
<mailto:mromani < at > ottotecnica.com>>

Hallo,
I've got a (hopefully not so) unusual problem.
I need look for a text string inside some text files that I've backed up
with bacula.
The first, naive solution that comes to mind is of course to extract
portion of the backup archive (e.g. going back in time), one fd-client
at-a-time, do the search and then delete the "restored" files if the
string is not found.
But this process would be highly time-consuming and inefficient FWIKT.


If you backup to disk volumes that you can search trough volume files.
When you find a location (address) inside a volume then you can compare
it with a jobmedia table in database. As a result you will get a jobid.
In this case I assume that you don't perform any compression or encryption.
best regards
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radoslaw < at > korzeniewski.net <mailto:radoslaw < at > korzeniewski.net>

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately I compress files on disk.
I could try this approach on tape, though.


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