On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:58, Beda Kosata wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:40, Beda Kosata wrote: > > > >>Dear all, > >>I am using bacula to backup several of our machines and I have run into > >>a problem restoring one machine. > >>All files are restored, but for some of them I get something like this > >>in messages: > >> > >>01-Aug 15:31 fretka-fd: MilaRestoreFiles.2006-08-01_15.31.09 Error: > >>Uncompression error on file > >>/home/restore/home/nicmila/.thunderbird/fpjdjhkm.default/Mail/LocalFolders/Sent.msf. >> > >> > >>ERR=Zlib buffer error > >> > >>and the resulting files have zero length. > >>This machine is a pretty new AMD64. When I have tried to restore to an > >>older pentium4 machine, everything went ok. Both of them are running > >>Gentoo Linux in similar configuration. > >>Therefor I suspect the problem is in the 64bit machine. However trying > >>to find any information on problems with zlib on AMD64 was not successful. > >>I have tried to recompile both zlib and bacula, even with optimization > >>turned off, but the errors remain. > >> > >>I would be glad for any suggestions how to fix this problem. > > > > > > Are you trying to restore files from Volumes that were written on the Pentium4 > > on the AMD64 or did you write the Volumes with your AMD64? > > > > > > I am trying to restore files that were backed up on an older pentium > machine (as part of hardware update). I have now tried to restore backup > that was already made on the AMD64 machine and everything seems to be OK. > I guess it solves most of the problem for me now. Anyway I wonder what > the problem is. Shouldn't zlib work regardless of the architecture?
Yes, zlib should work regardless of the architecture -- this is a real pity to hear, because it means that zlib is not 32/64 bit clean and/or does not take the trouble to handle byte order differences. Perhaps it is time to consider implementing other compression algorithms such as lzma, which I believe were written more recently and probably handle thes problems. I'll also take a note of this and check the Bacula code as it is possible that there is a problem, though I doubt it. > > Thanks > Beda > > p.s.- bacula is great :) Thanks. Regards, Kern > > >> Best regards > >> > >> Beda > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>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 > >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
