On Monday 11 December 2006 16:52, Andrew Fabian wrote: > This sounds right to me: the option to specify an alternative restore-to > client exists in the menus, but is simply absent from the command line > interface. It's also really weird that changing "Client" in the modify > job menu does something different than specifying client= on the command > line. > > To recap, I'm trying to restore a job to a client other than where it > came from, and do this via a script that is fed into bconsole. In the > mean time, my stopgap solution is to make the script something more like > this, where "1" is the restore-to server ("Y")'s position in bacula's > client list: > > [script] > restore jobid=X client=X file=<filelist where=/tmp/test > mod > 5 > 1 > yes > [end script] > > bconsole <script > > That seems to work, but seems really kludgy.
Agreed. Why don't you submit a Feature Request. For a command line option. I'll personally guarantee that it will get implemented. > > Thanks again! I'm still very impressed with Bacula. > > Andy > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > The current behavior is really a sort of mini-kludge because it is not very > > evident to the user what is going on. Probably what we need is a different > > keyword for the input and output client. Also the code has evolved quite a > > lot over the past years, so all parts of it may not be totally consistent. > > Most of this code will be rewritten or reorganized during the GUI project > > after the release of 1.40.0 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users