On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 09:42, Radosław Korzeniewski <
rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> pon., 28 wrz 2020 o 14:34 Ben Laurie <b...@links.org> napisał(a):
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 18:58, Josip Deanovic <djosip+n...@linuxpages.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 2020-09-13 15:43:31 Ben Laurie wrote:
>>> > > Not sure if IgnoreCase option could caused it somehow.
>>> >
>>> > According to the documentation it just makes it ignore case for pattern
>>> > matching, so seems unlikely?
>>>
>>> I can't say because I didn't use Bacula with Windows a lot.
>>> It worked fine back in 2010-2012.
>>>
>>> > Yes, funny I somehow had not noticed that before - I've added it. I
>>> > presume it won't fix this problem, tho.
>>>
>>> No, but it will make the difference for future backups.
>>>
>>
>> I tried using accurate but it just caused errors (I forget what now, but
>> some problem with database searches?).
>>
>> In other news, I did a full restore as a test recently and I got quite a
>> few errors along the lines of:
>>
>> 25-Sep 14:46 xxx-fd JobId 35: Error: File /tmp/bacula-restores/k/xxx
>> already exists and could not be replaced. ERR=Permission denied.
>>
>
> First of all to properly restore Windows files on any Linux or Unix
> machine you have to set a Portable flag for your backup.
>

According to
https://www.bacula.org/5.1.x-manuals/fr/main/main/Windows_Version_Bacula.html
that is no longer true...

"Note: with Bacula versions 1.39.x and later, non-portable Windows data can
be restore to any machine."

With Portable=no (which is a default) Bacula will backup Windows files
> using Windows API calls which are not strictly portable to Linux/Unix
> read/write. This could explain the backup/restore sizes.
> Additionally above "Permission denied" errors are extremely strange and
> could directly influence your restore. This could additionally explain the
> backup/restore sizes.
>
> best regards
> --
> Radosław Korzeniewski
> rados...@korzeniewski.net
>
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