Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 GZIP error
Arno Lehmann wrote: Brennon Church wrote: Hello all, Is there a compatibility issue with gzip data between Windows and Linux clients? I recently tried to restore a file from a backup of a Windows box to a Linux box, and got the following error: From the manual, section FileSet configuration: portable=yes|no If set to yes (default is no), the Bacula File daemon will backup Win32 files in a portable format, but not all Win32 file attributes will be saved and restored. By default, this option is set to no, which means that on Win32 systems, the data will be backed up using Windows API calls and on WinNT/2K/XP, all the security and ownership attributes will be properly backed up (and restored). However this format is not portable to other systems - e.g. Unix, Win95/98/Me. When backing up Unix systems, this option is ignored, and unless you have a specific need to have portable backups, we recommend accept the default (no) so that the maximum information concerning your files is saved. Is there some interest in addressing this ? I have recollections of mucking around with BackupRead/BackupWrite stream format for recovering data from a corrupted backup, and it seems to me that there is actually documentation somewhere. I got my data out of the stream for sure, but I cannot remember if it was Windows NT 3.51 or early Windows NT 4. Davide Bolcioni --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 GZIP error
On Thursday 14 April 2005 15:38, Davide Bolcioni wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: Brennon Church wrote: Hello all, Is there a compatibility issue with gzip data between Windows and Linux clients? I recently tried to restore a file from a backup of a Windows box to a Linux box, and got the following error: From the manual, section FileSet configuration: portable=yes|no If set to yes (default is no), the Bacula File daemon will backup Win32 files in a portable format, but not all Win32 file attributes will be saved and restored. By default, this option is set to no, which means that on Win32 systems, the data will be backed up using Windows API calls and on WinNT/2K/XP, all the security and ownership attributes will be properly backed up (and restored). However this format is not portable to other systems - e.g. Unix, Win95/98/Me. When backing up Unix systems, this option is ignored, and unless you have a specific need to have portable backups, we recommend accept the default (no) so that the maximum information concerning your files is saved. Is there some interest in addressing this ? I have recollections of mucking around with BackupRead/BackupWrite stream format for recovering data from a corrupted backup, and it seems to me that there is actually documentation somewhere. I got my data out of the stream for sure, but I cannot remember if it was Windows NT 3.51 or early Windows NT 4. Yes, there is some documentation, and I would like to be able to read Windows BackupWrite data on any system, but it requires a good deal of work, especially to ensure that it is 32/64 bit compatible, that one doesn't violate any Microsoft License by using or copying their headers, and that one handles bigendian/littlendian data formats. If there is someone willing to work on it, I'd be pleased as it is not currently the highest of my priorities. Davide Bolcioni --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 GZIP error
Hello, Brennon Church wrote: Hello all, Is there a compatibility issue with gzip data between Windows and Linux clients? I recently tried to restore a file from a backup of a Windows box to a Linux box, and got the following error: From the manual, section FileSet configuration: portable=yes|no If set to yes (default is no), the Bacula File daemon will backup Win32 files in a portable format, but not all Win32 file attributes will be saved and restored. By default, this option is set to no, which means that on Win32 systems, the data will be backed up using Windows API calls and on WinNT/2K/XP, all the security and ownership attributes will be properly backed up (and restored). However this format is not portable to other systems - e.g. Unix, Win95/98/Me. When backing up Unix systems, this option is ignored, and unless you have a specific need to have portable backups, we recommend accept the default (no) so that the maximum information concerning your files is saved. Arno Error: Win32 GZIP data stream not supported on this Client. Restoring the same file to another Windows box worked fine. Am I missing something, or is this not going to work, as long as I'm using gzip compression? If the information is needed, I'm using 1.36.2 on the Linux boxes and 1.36.1 on Windows. Could it be the difference in versions? Thanks. --Brennon --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
