On 04/10/10, Graham Keeling (graham AT equiinet DOT com) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:00:12PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
...
> > At present I am doing a restore job by using option 3 and entering the
> > job id as all our backups are full backups. Then I go into the restore
> > console.
> > 
> > For each file I want to retrieve I find I have to walk the directory
> > tree to mark the file. 
> > mark "/survey/GTC/02_SURVEY/02 Graphics/A Exisiting Site 
> > Images/GTC_40_ContactSheet-002.pdf" 
> > doesn't seem to work.
> 
> I don't know if this is helpful to you, but the way I do this (with a script)
> is:
> path="/your/path/to/file.abc"
> dir=${path%/*}
> file=${path##*/}
> (then in bconsole)
> cd "$dir"
> mark "$file"
> 
> Bear in mind, last time I checked, bconsole has a very eccentric way of
> quoting things. And the 'cd' quoting is different to the 'mark' quoting.
> 
> For 'cd', you need to quote '\' and '"' with '\'.
> 
> For 'mark':
> '\' needs '\\\'.
> '"' needs '\'.
> '*', '?' and '[' need '\\'.

Thanks very much for your notes, Graham. Aaargh! I'll give those quoting
patterns a go.

It would be fantastically useful to be able to pipe file names to a
Bacula restore process.

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