On Wednesday 2021-12-01 09:11:43 Eric Bollengier via Bacula-users wrote: > Hello, > > On 11/30/21 22:31, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 11/30/21 14:54, Josip Deanovic wrote: > >> On Tuesday 2021-11-30 12:07:37 Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>> 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*.">> > >> The restore command of the bconsole tool already has the "pool" > >> command > >> line argument which could be used for volume selection. > >> > >> In my case with Bacula 9.6.7 it didn't work with copy jobs. It would > >> be > >> nice to make it work with newer Bacula versions (e.g. 11.x). > >> > >> Eric mentioned that MediaType might potentially be used in the > >> selection algorithm. I am not sure if this is necessary if we get a > >> working "pool=" argument. > > > > Indeed, and Pool is probably a better discriminator in this case than > > MediaType. In my case, the two relevant pools for Full backups are > > Full-Disk and Full-Archive, and both are Media Type = File. In any > > random hypothetical environment with copy jobs, I would expect it to > > be far more likely that Copy jobs will be in a different Pool than > > that they will have a different media type. > I don't know, personally, I'm using different pools to have different > retention, so, we have a simple case where all jobs are in one pool > (from Full to the last Incr), but it's a corner case as well. > > We can add a pool= or a mediatype= kind of keyword in the restore > command line, however, it's far from being very friendly as what we can > find in Baculum for example. I will think about it and your ideas are > welcome.
But the command line parameter "pool=" already exists in bconsole tool. It just doesn't work in my 9.6.7 setup. Not sure if it would work with 11.x version of Bacula. Regards! -- Josip Deanovic _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
