Hello,
On 11/30/21 04:52, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
So far, so good... BUT it gets better because Bacula notices that I have copies
of these five jobs! Excellent!
So it prints:
These JobIds have copies as follows:
+--------+-------------------------------+-----------+---------------+
| jobid | job | copyjobid | mediatype |
+--------+-------------------------------+-----------+---------------+
| 43,803 | Speedy.2021-11-29_03.15.00_39 | 43,813 | Synology-File |
| 43,777 | Speedy.2021-11-28_03.15.00_39 | 43,788 | Synology-File |
| 43,751 | Speedy.2021-11-27_03.15.00_39 | 43,762 | Synology-File |
| 43,725 | Speedy.2021-11-26_03.15.00_39 | 43,736 | Synology-File |
| 43,699 | Speedy.2021-11-25_03.15.00_08 | 43,710 | Synology-File |
+--------+-------------------------------+-----------+---------------+
But then this is where the breakdown is...
Bacula ignores those five copy jobids, and reports that it is building the
restore tree from the original backups jobids:
You have selected the following JobIds: 43699,43725,43751,43777,43803
Building directory tree for JobId(s) 43699,43725,43751,43777,43803 ...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
554,180 files inserted into the tree.
So, I think I need to report this. (or amend the Mantis if one exists :)
The command prints the alternative to the different jobs, I don't think it can
choose for you, here in this example, we have 2^5 different possibilities to
restore the files, I'm not sure Bacula can guess automatically which one do
you want in the mix.
The basic idea is that the original job is usually stored on fast and available
disks, the copy is more likely stored on tape or cloud kind of slow access device.
When the original job is purged (usually you have a smaller retention), then the
copy job is "promoted", and the next restore command will select it
automatically.
Note, that it's also possible to have multiple copies of each job, on different
kind of devices, and some jobs involved may not have copies. Now, if we can
determine a selection algorithm (via MediaType?), we can probably implement it.
Bconsole is not the best tool for advanced selection screens, however Baculum
GUI has an excellent supports the copy job selection and can also display the
different versions of a file, and let you restore the one you want for example.
Best Regards,
Eric
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