Hello Arno,

On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:34, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is to let you know that I am now on vacation until Sunday, then for
> > a few days, I'll probably not be well connected to my email.
>
> Enjoy your vacation, and good luck with your stay in hospital!

Thanks.  The vacation was/is one of the better ones I have ever had. Thanks 
also for your good luck wishes. I'm both looking forward to the hospital stay 
and dreading it ...

>
> > Last night, I succeeded in making Kmail totally delete my imap mail
> > folder.  I have no idea how this happened, and haven't had time to
> > investigate it.  I would claim it is a *MAJOR* bug in Kmail.   I did get
> > my mail folder back thanks to Bacula with the loss of a few hours of mail
> > :-(  since I don't do backups generally more than once a day.
>
> Still this proves the value of doing backups :-)

Yes, but can you imagine my horror when I saw that it wanted to mount the 
tapes in the wrong order!  

>
> > However, in restoring my mail directory, I ran into several serious bugs
> > in Bacula.  They may be 1.37 related, but I don't think so.  Basically,
> > Bacula gets confused about the order of the Volumes to be restored.  Once
> > the Volumes to be restored are in the wrong order, it is possible to get
> > corrupted files if the files spanned two of those Volumes.
>
> Oops... well, I saw the bug report in mantis, and at least now you've
> seen that yourself. Still, bad luck, but I'm confident that you will fix
> this for us ;-)

Yes, I have fixed it (at least on my portable).  It is really amazing because 
it is not such a simple bug to fix and the bug has been in Bacula for 5 years 
now!

>
> Only joking (kind of). Now, I don't know if you ever told us, but what
> database are you using? 

MySQL.  But the problem applies to all databases.

> I assumed that was a problem with PostgeSQL, but 
> I might see if I have the same issue with MySQL.
>
> > I'll be looking at this as soon as I can, but it sure came at a bad time.
>
> Things like that always do, right?

Yes. It is a good example of Murphy's Law.
>
> Arno


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