Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-19 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 03:19:57PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > Do you, Uwe, confirm that an Autochanger is the only way to have working > and automated restore jobs with volumes in different directories? > > Thank you again. Hi Stefano, I've never used the virtual autochanger so I cannot real

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread Thomas Lohman
> That seems a working solution, but creating a symbolic link for every > volume required by a restore job introduces a manual operation that > would be better to avoid, especially if a lot of incremental volumes are > being considered. We use symbolic links here and have never had any problems.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:36 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> But, in my opinion, an Autochanger is a too specific tape related concept >> that introduces a lot of complexity that is not really needed by a >> filesystem solution, i'd prefer not to deal with redundant configuration >> tasks performed ex

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread John Drescher
> But, in my opinion, an Autochanger is a too specific tape related concept > that introduces a lot of complexity that is not really needed by a > filesystem solution, i'd prefer not to deal with redundant configuration > tasks performed exclusively in order to work around software architectural >

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread stefano scotti
2013/12/17 Uwe Schuerkamp > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:09:18PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > > > > > > The problem here is that different storages refer to different > > directories, and Bacula pretends to find the new volume in the same > > directory of the old one. > > Now that the MediaType

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:09:18PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > > > The problem here is that different storages refer to different > directories, and Bacula pretends to find the new volume in the same > directory of the old one. > Now that the MediaType is the same, no fatal errors are expose

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-16 Thread stefano scotti
2013/12/16 Uwe Schuerkamp > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:43:29PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > > i took a step forward. > > > > i understood that the problem arise only if i try to restore a directory > > whose files are present in different volumes. > > if i try to restore a single file i don't h

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:43:29PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > i took a step forward. > > i understood that the problem arise only if i try to restore a directory > whose files are present in different volumes. > if i try to restore a single file i don't have any problem, that's because > Bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-13 Thread John Drescher
> thank you John for your clarification. The problem is you can not switch storage devices during a single job. You need to have all of your data on the same storage device. > do you know how i can realize a "virtual disk autochanger" configuration or > where i can find some documentation about i

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-13 Thread stefano scotti
2013/12/13 John Drescher > > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:43 AM, stefano scotti < > scottistefan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i took a step forward. >> >> i understood that the problem arise only if i try to restore a directory >> whose files are present in different volumes. >> if i try to restor

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-13 Thread Thomas Lohman
> 10-dic 17:46 thisdir-sd JobId 762: acquire.c:121 Changing read > device. Want Media Type="JobName_diff" have="JobName_full" >device="JobName_full" (/path/to/storage/JobName_full) I think that you want to make sure the Media Type for each Storage Device is "File". It looks like

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:43 AM, stefano scotti wrote: > i took a step forward. > > i understood that the problem arise only if i try to restore a directory > whose files are present in different volumes. > if i try to restore a single file i don't have any problem, that's because > Bacula is abl

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-13 Thread stefano scotti
i took a step forward. i understood that the problem arise only if i try to restore a directory whose files are present in different volumes. if i try to restore a single file i don't have any problem, that's because Bacula is able to identify the correct volume associated with that file. but, if