Hello,
On 5/22/2006 7:09 PM, hikari wrote:
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Hi Peeps,
I have backup jobs set to do Full and Differential backups to tape
and Incrementals to file (the incrementals are running every hour
because they're backing up development trees and source repository).
If I try and do a restore via the console interface, it spits out an
error about not being to able to restore because of the mixed media
types:
Warning, the JobIds that you selected refer to more than one MediaType.
Restore is not possible. The MediaTypes used are:
DLT7000
File
Does this mean I need to do a restore of the last full/differential
then do the incremental afterwards, or is there a more elegant way
of handling it?
Damn.
I though that was fixed by now, but it doesn't seem to...
You can do the following:
Edit the bootstrap file created by the restore process, when you are
finally asked to confirm the restore.
You will find that this bootstrap file contains - rather easily
understandable - textual descriptions of what data to restore from which
volumes.
Assuming you run full backups to tape and differential ones to disk, you
split that file between these two media types. You should keep one file
describing the restore from tape volumes, representing your last full
backup. A second file will contain the locations for file based
restores, pointing to the data from the differential jobs.
Run these two bootstrap files one after the other.
If you've got differential jobs mixed over different media types you are
in trouble, I think, because you'd have to split the file at each media
type change.
Admittedly, this is complicated, but especially after a lengthy restore
job setup it can be faster than manually selecting jobs. And I can
assure you that it works - I tried this once to make sure my backup
scheme was useful to me.
This serious limitation (IMO) in Bacula should, as far as I know, vanish
soon, probably with 1.40, because restores from more than one media type
are a necessity if you really want to use job migration.
Arno
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Chris Crowther
Developer
J&M Crowther Ltd.
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