I've learnt something new today. It's clear that if I want to restore something from a specific backup job only then bconsole restore is the way to go.
Thanks to all who cleared this up for me. -Chris- On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, 03:46 Marcin Haba, <ganius...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Yes, I am coming. Thanks for calling me here :-) > > Baculum / Bacularis always use full as a base + incremental or > differential backups. > > In the restore wizard close to the radio button with the "Selected > backup" restore method there is green help icon where is described the > way how this method works: > > "Note: if you select incremental or differential backup, on the next > step will be also loaded all directories and files from older backups > required to do the job restore. In other words, the selected backup > determines time point from which will be loaded the selected backup > and other older backups (incremental, differential) backups up till > closest full backup." > > If you don't use the restore from copy jobs function, Baculum will put > your selected jobid to the following bconsole command: > > .bvfs_get_jobids jobid=XXXJOBIDXXX > > that determines all single backup jobids needed to do a consistent data > restore. > > If you want to restore using copy jobs function Baculum will use own > algorithm to determine jobids because of an old bug in > .bvfs_get_jobids command described here: > > > https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2500 > > Best regards, > Marcin Haba (gani) > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 01:26, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > On 10/27/23 16:17, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > > Having looked at the job log from a Baculum restore I can see that it > is going back to the last full and restoring full, > > > diffs, incrs in order. > > > > > > Is it not possible to restore from a particular job alone in Baculum > as is possible with bconsole? > > > > Knowing Bacula, and knowing Marcin, I am sure there must be a way. > > > > Let's wait for Marcin to chime in. :) > > > > > > Best regards, > > Bill > > > > -- > > Bill Arlofski > > w...@protonmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > -- > "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for > his friends." Jesus Christ > > "Większej miłości nikt nie ma nad tę, jak gdy kto życie swoje kładzie > za przyjaciół swoich." Jezus Chrystus >
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