On Thursday 28 December 2006 06:18, James Harper wrote: > > One time I stupidly did something like: > > > > rm -rf xxx. * > > > > while running as root and cd'ed into the root directory. My rescue > disk > > very > > quickly allowed me to restore the 500 or so damaged files to my system > > which > > was no longer bootable (/boot was gone and a good part of /lib was > gone). > > Everyone done that at least once :) > > > The Bacula rescue disk is good at that. It isn't so good as a one > button > > restore in a disaster recovery situation. However, over time, we may > get > > there especially if some users such as yourself take and interest in > the > > problem. > > The whole idea of a 'one button restore' scares me just as much as > typing 'rm -rf *'... > > I'm just testing a restore of an XP system using my Linux Rescue CD > (nothing more than dfsbuild with bacula-fd and ntfs-3g loaded on it). I > have built the ntfs filesystem and restored the files onto it... I'm > just figuring out what to do to make it bootable, which may be horribly > complicated. > > As an aside, when I ran the restore under linux of a BackupRead backed > up XP system to a Linux ntfs-3g filesystem, I got a few of these: > > 28-Dec 00:51 testing-9bt6t7m-fd: RestoreFiles.2006-12-28_00.46.42 Error: > attribs.c:409 File size of restored file /mnt/C:/D > ocuments and Settings/NetworkService/ntuser.dat.LOG not correct. > Original 1024, restored 16384. > > Is this just an artefact of Bacula extracting data out of the BackupRead > streams or is there something else going on?
You didn't specify, but I assume you are using a 1.39.x client, in which case either there is a bug with extraction of the BackupRead data or the file in question really did change size between the time it was opened and the time saving the file completed. > > Thanks > > James > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
