Restoring Selected Files from NDMP Streams

Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

If the use_hist option has been applied with NDMP based backups, information about individual files will be added to Bacula’s Catalog. To restore selected files, not complete volumes, you would navigate into the file system tree below the @ndmp/ directory, pick individual files as usual, and finalize the restore preparation in the usual way, too. It is required to restore to an NDMP Plugin in this case, and the where= option will still be pointing to a directory inside the target volume. The volume to restore to would also be indicated by the plugin option dest_volume.

Note

Such single file restores will still read the complete NDMP data stream and send it to the filer device, which is responsible to apply the file selection during restoration.

Note that SMTAPE format data streams do not provide single file restore capabilities.