On 11/30/21 11:01, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
On 11/30/21 01:38, Eric Bollengier wrote:
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.
Yes, this is true, and something people (like me for example) often forget - A
backup job may be copied many times, and to
every different storage type - So making a guess which copy the user wants to
restore from would be impossible. :)
So, the workflow as I described in my follow-up replay last night currently is
the right one and it makes more sense
considering the multiple copies scenario.
However, in a case where there are two or more complete sets of jobs on
different pools or devices, both containing all of the jobs necessary to
perform the desired restore, it SEEMS that it should be conceptually
simple to list the jobs and sources and allow the user/administrator to
select a restore SOURCE, then automatically select the volumes and jobs
required to perform the restore from that source. This seems much
simpler than trying to choose from all possible sets of jobs/volumes.
The question then ceases to be "I have twenty possible volumes from
which your restore could be performed, which five of the twenty volumes
do you want to use?", and instead becomes, "I have four possible SOURCES
to perform this restore from, please pick *one restore source*."
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