On 6/28/05, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 27 June 2005 22:24, Martin Simmons wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:20:49 +0200, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>>>> said: > > > > Arno> Hello, > > > > Arno> Siju George wrote: > > >> On 6/20/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> I am looking at Bacula > > >>> but the line > > >>> # Files deleted after a Full save will be included in a restoration. > > >>> in > > >>> http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html > > >>> under > > >>> Current Implementation Restrictions > > >>> makes me a little apprhensive. > > >>> Is Bacula actually not able to backup Directory structures?? > > >>> > > >>> i.e > > >>> > > >>> If in a Directory "dir1" I have "file1", "file2" & "file3" and I take > > >>> a full backup "backup1" on "Day1" the I delete "file2" from "dir1" > > >>> and take a differential backup "backup2". > > >>> > > >>> Now I should be able to restore "dir1" from "backup2" with only > > >>> "file1" and "file2" > > >> > > >> Sorry :-( this should read as "file1" & "file3" > > > > Arno> You _can_ restore file1 file2 and file3 in dir1. However, when you > > use Arno> bacula to manage a restore and tell it to make a complete restore > > it Arno> will restore all three files. > > Arno> If you tell bacula to only use the differential backup then, of > > course, Arno> file2 will not be restored. Usually you will not do this > > because it's Arno> baculas job to keep track which jobs and volumes it > > needs to restore :-) > > > > Arno> So, of course bacula saves and retrieves directory structure, but > > it Arno> does not keep track of deletions. > > > > Arno> The latter would require a complete compare of all directory > > entries to Arno> be backed up with what bacula has in its catalog and thus > > would be very Arno> resource intensive. > > One day in the near future, I will do exactly this. I've now finally figured > out a simple way to do this -- but darn, I forgot to write it down. Oh well, > it will come to me again :-) > > > > > Done correctly, it should be possible to do all the work in restore for > > filesystems that work properly. Backup just has to record the inode number > > for each changed file. > > The problem is that inode is a machine specific concept. Though it can be > simulated, it doesn't exist on Win32 or Mac (well perhaps on OS X). Though > this would work nicely as you say, I always like to do things in machine > independent ways. >
For the time being is it possible to accomplish this with AMANDA???? kind regards Siju ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
