On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:17 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: > Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 16:13: > > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:07 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: > >> are you running the exact same versions of bacula on director, file > >> daemon and storage daemon? If you're not, things can get 'interesting'... > > > > Ah! You may be onto something! The version of bacula I have is debian > > sarge 1.36.2-2sarge1 (ie about 30 years old) but the windows client is > > 1.38.4 - are my backups likely to be worthless? If I install an older fd > > will that work, or should I compile a new director from source? > > Try an older fd on Windows (replacing the .exe file whilst the service > is stopped should be sufficient - I don't think the configuration format > has changed much). > > Stop the bacula service, take a copy of the current bacula-fd.exe > program and extract a 1.36.2 (or .3) bacula-fd.exe from the archive > which presumably is up on sourceforge somewhere and then start the > bacula service. See if you can restore then. > > I would expect your backups to be restorable, but well, you never know > until you try :)
Getting further - only windows fd I can find is 36.3 03-Aug 16:37 quad2desk2: RestoreFiles.2006-08-03_16.34.54 Error: Uncompression error on file C:/tmp/C//Documents and Settings/Chris/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook/Outlook.pst. ERR=Zlib buffer error and a 0 byte file in the correct path :'( -- Tom Newton SmoothWall Limited 1 John Charles Way Leeds LS12 6QA United Kingdom www.smoothwall.net Phone: +44-(0)870 1 999 500 DDI: +44-(0)113 38 74 166 Fax: +44-(0)870 1 991 399 This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall Limited. Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. See: http://www.smoothwall.net/emailnotice.html for the full text of this notice. -- Tom Newton SmoothWall Limited 1 John Charles Way Leeds LS12 6QA United Kingdom www.smoothwall.net Phone: +44-(0)870 1 999 500 DDI: +44-(0)113 38 74 166 Fax: +44-(0)870 1 991 399 This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall Limited. Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. See: http://www.smoothwall.net/emailnotice.html for the full text of this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
