Bacula Restoring Files without Catalog

The first thing to remember is that both bextract and bls need to working archives that are in a directory defined in /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf

example_dir_block

Device {
  Name = FileStorage
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /home/tschulz/Downloads
  LabelMedia = yes;                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
  Random Access = Yes;
  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
  RemovableMedia = no;
  AlwaysOpen = no;
}

On Ubuntu you need to install bacula-sd to get bextact and bls

apt-get install bacula-sd

bls example

 sudo bls /home/tschulz/Downloads/Web-0037

bextract example

sudo bextract /home/tschulz/Downloads/Web-0037 /tmp/