On Monday 11 December 2006 16:52, Andrew Fabian wrote:
> This sounds right to me: the option to specify an alternative restore-to 
> client exists in the menus, but is simply absent from the command line 
> interface.  It's also really weird that changing "Client" in the modify 
> job menu does something different than specifying client= on the command 
> line.
> 
> To recap, I'm trying to restore a job to a client other than where it 
> came from, and do this via a script that is fed into bconsole.  In the 
> mean time, my stopgap solution is to make the script something more like 
> this, where "1" is the restore-to server ("Y")'s position in bacula's 
> client list:
> 
> [script]
> restore jobid=X client=X file=<filelist where=/tmp/test
> mod
> 5
> 1
> yes
> [end script]
> 
> bconsole <script
> 
> That seems to work, but seems really kludgy.

Agreed.  

Why don't you submit a Feature Request.  For a command line option.  I'll 
personally guarantee that it will get implemented.

> 
> Thanks again!  I'm still very impressed with Bacula.
> 
> Andy
> 
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > The current behavior is really a sort of mini-kludge because it is not 
very 
> > evident to the user what is going on.  Probably what we need is a 
different 
> > keyword for the input and output client.  Also the code has evolved quite 
a 
> > lot over the past years, so all parts of it may not be totally consistent.  
> > Most of this code will be rewritten or reorganized during the GUI project 
> > after the release of 1.40.0
> >
> >   
> 
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