I'm documenting the restore procedure for a customer site. For offsite media, I 
am backing up the catalogue to the offsite media, and then purging the records 
for that media from the catalog (so that subsequent virtualfull backups don't 
try and use the offsite media as a source, which leads to all sorts of 
confusion).

There are several TB of onsite Bacula storage, which will cover 99% of restore 
scenario's, but if a user did want a file that had fallen off the end of the 
onsite storage and I needed to restore from archived media, I think the 
procedure might go like:

1. bextract the catalogue from the offsite media (I save the bsr file too so 
this should be quick)
2. load the catalogue into a different mysql database (or sqlite3 maybe, with 
an appropriate dump converter?)
3. create a restore job that uses this new catalogue
4. restore the file

Is my idea of using a different restore job with a different catalogue to what 
Bacula uses normally going to work? The config file appears to allow for this 
but that doesn't mean it works in practice...

Thanks

James

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