Hi Uwe,

> 
> We recently switched to running multiple catalogs and have seen
> similar strange issues, however not while restoring but more often
> when running backups. 
Could you give some more info about your problems ? I want to be
prepared before migrating everything to bacula :) 


> I'm wondering why you don't define different media types if you run
> dedicated pools & storages for each client? This might help bacula to
> identify which storage can read a certain media type. It's only a
> string that identifies the media type, there's no magic involved at
> all. 

Can you send me and example of what you mean ? Currently those are the
config snippets from my bacula-dir.conf/bacula-sd/.conf

bacula-dir.conf:
=====
Storage {
        Name = dsrv4-storage
        Address = 10.3.124.200
        SDPort = 9103
        Password = "*******"
        Device = dsrv4-device
        Media Type = File
        Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
}
=====

bacula-sd.conf:
======
Device {
  Name = dsrv4-device
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /storage/bacula/dsrv4
  LabelMedia = yes                  
  Random Access = Yes
  RemovableMedia = no
  AlwaysOpen = yes

}
=====

I'm using Media Type = File, cause all of my Pools are files on HDD.


> In our setup, each client has two pools (one for full, one for
> incrementals), two storages (ditto) and two media types defined. 

Here is the same case :) 

> As a last resort with disk based backup at least, you can use bls /
> bextract to get at your backup data, circumventing catalog usage
> completely. 

Yep there is bextract (handy tool), but I need to use functional bacula
installation, also being able to restore with "restore". Also I'm
working on some restore automations, which strongly rely
on ./bconsole-->restore 

> Out of couriosity, how big is your "large" catalog? 

Currently it's about 40G. After I migrate the servers I plan, the
summary size of all db's would be arround 500-600G, which I thinks is a
huge data for just one catalog....

Regards

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