Thanks for the replies:

 - rsync isn't available for social and security reasons.  Otherwise it's
the right way to do this.

 - Piping the commands makes sense except it gets complicated.  The example
you had would restore client to the same FD but I need it to be restored to
a different FD.

It may be that I have to do a large piped command though.  The restore
command only accepts "client=xxxx" which it then presumes to be the "Backup
Client" as well as "Restore Client".  A "client=foofoo-fd" results in:

JobName:         RestoreFiles
Bootstrap:       /var/bacula/working/mama-dir.restore.184.bsr
Where:           /u/bacula/restores
Replace:         always
FileSet:         JustRoot Set
Backup Client:   foofoo-fd
Restore Client:  foofoo-fd
Storage:         foofooFiles
When:            2010-06-23 12:35:34
Catalog:         MamaCatalog
Priority:        10
Plugin Options:  *None*


I need to somehow specify the Restore Client to be barbar-fd before the job
gets started.

The example restore job resource looks like:

Job {
  Name = "RestoreFiles"
  Type = Restore
  Client = Any-client
  FileSet = "Any-FileSet"
  Storage = Any-storage
  Where = /tmp/bacula-restores
  Messages = Standard
  Pool = Default
}

The documentation for the Job resource says, "Only a single Client may be
specified in any one Job."  It seems the building a restore job with a
different backup client and restore client isn't possible.  This would be
the nicest as I could then have definitions like:

Job {
  Name = "foofooRestore"
  Type = Restore
  Backup Client = foofoo-fd
  Restore Client = barbar-fd
  FileSet = "Important Set"
  Storage = foofooFiles
  Messages = Standard
  Pool = Default
}

Then to execute the restore I could: run job=foofooRestore yes

I may end up having to do something like:
 barbar# ssh foofoo "tar -C / -cf - path1 path2" | (cd / tar xf -)

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the thoughts so far!

peter




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