Thanks a lot Avi. I'll try that and tell you how it goes :)
Cheers.
Jean-François Leroux
2009/12/29 Avi Rozen <avi.rozen AT gmail DOT com>:
> Jean-François Leroux wrote:
>
>> Hi, , I'm using bacula-1.38.11.8 on debian Etch. I backup several
>> servers with bacula, these machines being added at the end of the
>> general bacula-dir.conf with the sign '@' , e.g '@machine1.conf'
>>
>> Now, I would like to create a job for restoring daily some files from
>> one machine to another.
>> I already have a general restore job in my bacula-dir.conf. So the
>> question is : do I add a restore job in each of these 'machine' files
>> so that I can restore files from these machines in different places
>> and a t different times?
>> How do I add this restore job to the job currently done? The schedule
>> resource doesn't mention which job is to be done.
>>
>
> For a while I had such a setup, where I used RunAfterJob to run a script
> containing something like this:
>
> bconsole <<EOF
> restore client=machine-cycle-fd restoreclient=machine-cycle-fd
> fileset=machine-cycle-fileset select current all done
> 5
> yes
> quit
> EOF
>
> The '5' selects the right restore job definitions on my setup, 'yes'
> confirms that the job parameters are correct and 'quit' exits bconsole.
>
> The restore job looked like this (note the 'ifnewer'):
>
> Job {
> Name = snapshot-restore-job
> Type = Restore
> Storage = File
> Messages = Standard
> RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/run-before-job.sh %n"
> RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/run-after-job.sh %n"
> Client = machine-cycle-fd
> FileSet = machine-cycle-fileset
> Pool = machine-cycle-pool
> Full Backup Pool = machine-cycle-full-pool
> Where = /mnt/gigapod/data/snapshot
> Replace = ifnewer
> }
>
> Mind you, this is bacula 3.0 and I used an admin job for the task, but
> something along these lines would probably work with 1.38 from within a
> regular backup job. I expect that the restore command would be somewhat
> trickier to run too (you may need to emulate interaction in order to
> modify the restore client, etc.)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Avi.
>
>
>> For example in my machine1.conf, I have
>>
>> Job {
>> Name = "Backup-Machine1"
>> Type = Backup
>> Level = Full
>> Client = machine1-fd
>> Fileset = "Machine1-Fileset"
>> Messages = Standard
>> Storage = Machine1-Storage
>> Pool = Machine1-Pool
>> Full Backup Pool = Machine1-Full-Pool
>> Differential Backup Pool = Machine1-Diff-Pool
>> Incremental Backup Pool = Machine1-Inc-Pool
>> Schedule="Machine1Cycle"
>> Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Machine1.bsr"
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = Machine1Cycle
>> run =Level= Full monthly 1st sun at 4:45
>> run =Level= Differential weekly 2nd-5th sun at 4:45
>> run =Level= Incremental mon-sat at 4:45
>> }
>>
>> FileSet {
>> Name = "Machine1-Fileset"
>> Include {
>> Options{
>> Compression=GZIP
>> signature=SHA1
>> wildfile = "*.run"
>> Exclude = yes
>> }
>> File = /home
>> File = /root
>> File = /etc
>> File = /var
>> }
>>
>> Don't know if this is clear. To sum it up: I want to restore files
>> from the backups on a daily basis. How do I do that (not manually) in
>> my machine1.conf?
>>
>> Thanks for your help :)
>>
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