Hello @icabrillo,
Welcome to the Bacularis User Group.
The Storage directive in the Bacula restore job is possible to configure but it is not taken into account it the restore process. It is there for compatibility with the general Job resource schema that allows to configure Storage. The same as the Pool directive that is not taken into account in the restore but it is possible to configure in the Restore job type.
When the restore is preparing, Bacula Director uses jobmedia SQL table to know what volumes will be required to restore. Once the Bacula Director knows volumes, it knows what Storage labeled this volume and it knows the MediaType.
There is a case when you can determine the Storage used for restore. This is the storage=xxxx parameter in the restore Bconsole command (or by 'mod' in restore in bconsole). This is for a case if you have two or more Storage that are capable to use the volume(s) used for restore. But please note if the MediaType of the provided Storage in the storage parameter will be different than the volume MediaType, then the restore will not work and Bacula should warn about it.
For your configuration, this is first time when I am seeing more Device directives in the Director Storage resource. I think there should be only one Device that indicates to the Storage Daemon Autochanger (if it is autochanger) or to Device if it is single device. In your case it will be the SD Autochanger name.
I am seeing that you use the same MediaType for two Storage resources. If they are two different file storage (that does not share the same directory on the SD side), then the MediaType should be different because otherwise it is information for Bacula that both UsersFile and VMsFile are capable to use the same volumes.
If the devices are selected randomly from both Storage for doing restores for the same jobids, I would propose to do:
1) Define one Device directive in the Director Storage resources that is the Autochanger.
2) If you want to have devices reserved for restore, then you can set ReadOnly = yes directive for selected Devices on the SD side. Otherwise Bacula will decide about choosing the device in autochanger.
3) If you select file versions from the Bacularis restore file versions box, please make sure that the selected versions are stored on volumes from storage that you want to use (for each file version there is yellow tooltip that shows the volume).
At the end I have a question if you are trying to restore from backup or from the copy job? If it is the copy job, in the latest Bacularis version 5.0.0 we fixed restore from incremental/differential level copies that can have impact on the storage selection for restore. But it is fix for restore from copy jobs. For restore from backups it should work well in 4.0.0.
And finally, I encourage to upgrade to 5.0.0. This is the major release with packages available in all repositories for everybody.
Please let us know if it helped.
Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)
