Yes Bill that is very helpful.
It is exactly as you say when I use bconsole restore. That works. I must
have made a mistake when I tried with bconsole previously.
I'm not able to reproduce that behaviour using Baculum, it always restores
from a full irrespective of the level of the job being restored. There
doesn't seem to be an equivalent of selecting a specific job ID.
I take your point about schedule being unwanted but it shouldn't do any
harm. I'll take it out for tidiness :).
-Chris-
On Fri, 27 Oct 2023, 22:42 Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users, <
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Resending to list. Accidentally directly replied to Chris...
>
>
>
> On 10/27/23 14:46, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> > Till now I have only ever done restores of full backups using the
> restore wizard of Baculum. When I did a restore of an
> > Incremental backup, I found that it reverted to restoring the last full
> backup. I get exactly the same behaviour using bconsole restore.
>
> When you do a restore in bconsole, by simply typing `restore`, you are
> presented with a menu of options.
>
> Most people will want option 5 or 6, sometimes 12.
>
> When you choose 5 or 6, Bacula will build the virtual restore directory
> tree from the last Full + all Incs up to the latest
> Inc (or from the last Full and the last Diff and then any Incs that
> followed)
>
> Bacula will even tell you what jobids, their levels, and the volumes it
> has selected to build the restore tree from:
> ----8<----
> * restore
>
> ...choose option 5
> ...select Client
> ...select Fileset
>
> +--------+-------+-----------+-----------------+---------------------+--------------+
> | jobid | level | jobfiles | jobbytes | starttime |
> volumename |
>
> +--------+-------+-----------+-----------------+---------------------+--------------+
> | 57,311 | F | 1,126,917 | 246,459,324,137 | 2023-09-30 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0035 |
> | 57,311 | F | 1,126,917 | 246,459,324,137 | 2023-09-30 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0040 |
> | 57,311 | F | 1,126,917 | 246,459,324,137 | 2023-09-30 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0060 |
> | 57,311 | F | 1,126,917 | 246,459,324,137 | 2023-09-30 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0056 |
> | 57,311 | F | 1,126,917 | 246,459,324,137 | 2023-09-30 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0068 |
> | 57,311 | F | 1,126,917 | 246,459,324,137 | 2023-09-30 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0064 |
> [...snip ...]
> | 57,336 | I | 2,408 | 6,799,759,717 | 2023-10-01 23:00:01 |
> c0_0008_0042 |
> | 57,360 | I | 4,419 | 12,524,588,799 | 2023-10-02 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0062 |
> | 57,360 | I | 4,419 | 12,524,588,799 | 2023-10-02 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0042 |
> | 57,389 | I | 5,654 | 22,617,335,979 | 2023-10-03 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0049 |
> | 57,389 | I | 5,654 | 22,617,335,979 | 2023-10-03 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0012 |
> | 57,389 | I | 5,654 | 22,617,335,979 | 2023-10-03 23:00:00 |
> c0_0008_0037 |
> | 57,416 | I | 7,835 | 11,500,849,933 | 2023-10-04 23:00:01 |
> c0_0005_0035 |
> | 57,416 | I | 7,835 | 11,500,849,933 | 2023-10-04 23:00:01 |
> c0_0005_0031 |
> | 57,440 | I | 343,892 | 29,334,262,930 | 2023-10-24 10:16:33 |
> c0_0005_0061 |
> | 57,440 | I | 343,892 | 29,334,262,930 | 2023-10-24 10:16:33 |
> c0_0005_0035 |
> | 57,440 | I | 343,892 | 29,334,262,930 | 2023-10-24 10:16:33 |
> c0_0005_0039 |
> | 57,440 | I | 343,892 | 29,334,262,930 | 2023-10-24 10:16:33 |
> c0_0005_0069 |
> | 57,446 | I | 5,753 | 11,490,954,183 | 2023-10-24 23:00:00 |
> c0_0005_0023 |
> | 57,446 | I | 5,753 | 11,490,954,183 | 2023-10-24 23:00:00 |
> c0_0005_0024 |
> | 57,477 | I | 6,270 | 22,715,024,368 | 2023-10-25 23:00:01 |
> c0_0005_0051 |
> | 57,477 | I | 6,270 | 22,715,024,368 | 2023-10-25 23:00:01 |
> c0_0005_0015 |
> | 57,477 | I | 6,270 | 22,715,024,368 | 2023-10-25 23:00:01 |
> c0_0005_0033 |
>
> +--------+-------+-----------+-----------------+---------------------+--------------+
> You have selected the following JobIds:
> 57311,57336,57360,57389,57416,57440,57446,57477
>
> Building directory tree for JobId(s)
> 57311,57336,57360,57389,57416,57440,57446,57477 ..
> ----8<----
>
> IF, on the other hand, you just want to restore some files that were
> backed up in a specific inc or Diff, simply specify the
> jobid on the restore command line:
> ----8<----
> * restore jobid=57477
> You have selected the following JobId: 57477
>
> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 57477 ...
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4,452 files inserted into the tree.
> ----8<----
>
>
> > This is the restore job resource.
> >
> > Job {
> > Name = "Restore"
> > Description = "Restore template"
> > Type = "Restore"
> > Level = "Full"
> > Messages = "Standard"
> > Storage = "dns-325-sd"
> > Pool = "usb16tb-full"
> > Client = "usb16tb-fd"
> > Fileset = "usb16tb"
> > Schedule = "sched_none"
> > }
> >
> > I had thought that most of these directives are not actually used as is
> but would be overridden by the wizard, i.e. the
> > values here are required but unimportant.
>
> I have no idea what Baculum does, Marcin can answer you definitively, but
> I bet there is a way to "restore files only from
> selected jobid" or similar option.
>
>
> > I also thought that only one 'dummy' restore job is needed that would be
> populated by the appropriate level, pool etc. from
> > the job/level being restored but that isn't what actually happens. It
> looks like the restore is taking its' level from the
> > restore job above.
>
> There is no such thing as a 'level' when doing a restore. The Bacula
> config parser requires certain things to be in each Job
> resource, and a `Type = Restore` Job resource is a Job just like any other.
>
> The pool, client, fileset, and storage are ignore as these are already
> known from the backup job(s)
>
> Also, you should not have a `Schedule =` defined in a `Type = Restore`
> Job. You will never actually "run" a Job of `Type =
> Restore` (Except when instructed to in the Admin I course) ;)
>
>
> > I have separate pools for each job and level.
> >
> > Do I need to define individual restore jobs for every job/level?
>
> Absolutely not.
>
> Again, there is no such thing as a "Level" when doing a restore.
>
> The only reason I have typically found to have more than one `Type =
> Restore` Job is when you often restore to Windows and
> Linux, and/or Mac systems, so I might have one for each system type and
> then, the only thing that is different might be the
> `Where =` since I might want `/tmp/` on a Linux system, and `C:/temp` on a
> Windows system (just for example)
>
>
> Hope this helps!
> Bill
>
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