Kern Sibbald schrieb: > On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:38, Christoph Litauer wrote: >> Kern Sibbald schrieb: >>> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 15:30, Christoph Litauer wrote: >>>>> Lots of ideas, starting with If you want a reasonable response, you must >>> first >>>>> provide at least minimum information. Please read the Support page on >>>>> www.bacula.org. >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps you supplied it previously, but I don't see it in this email. >>>>> >>>> Sorry, Kern. I didn't read the support info. >>>> >>>> I am running bacula-dir and bacula-sd on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server >>>> 10 (hostname is bacula). Version is mysql-2.0.3 (rpm on sourceforge). >>>> The client is a windows 2003 server running winbacula-2.0.3 >>>> (sourceforge, too). Hostname is hisservld. Attached is the relevant part >>>> of my bacula-dir.conf. >>> OK, that helps. At least I know that Bacula *should* handle German > characters >>> correctly (older versions did not). >>> >>>> I did a full dump of hisservld and tried to restore the files on the >>>> client at c:\temp\bacula. All files a restored but I get lots of >>>> messages complaining about errors changing the file permissions, e.g.: >>>> >>>> 05-Apr 16:12 hisservld-fd: RestoreFiles.2007-04-05_16.10.57 Warning: >>>> Cannot change permissions of C:/temp/bacula/C/Dokumente und >>>> Einstellungen/Administrator/StartmenÃŒ/Programme/Autostart: ERR=No such >>>> file or directory >>>> >>>> As you can see, the german umlaut ü "Startmenü" has been converted to a >>>> 2-byte UTF8 encoded character in the restoration path. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot for any help! >>> I suspect that you are not running UTF-8 on your Bacula server. As the > manual >>> indicates (some place), you need to have your LANG environment variable > set >>> correctly for Bacula. It must be something of the order: >>> >>> en_US.UTF-8 >>> >>> but adjusted for German (probably de_DE.UTF-8). Or you have a PostgreSQL >>> database and it is not running in UTF-8 mode ... >> Kern, thanks for your help. I changed the systems default locale to >> de_DE.UTF-8 and rebootet the system. > > OK. That is probably the best way to run your system. However, it is always > possible to set the LANG environment variable just for Bacula if using UTF-8 > isn't possible on your site. > >> Then I did another full dump of the >> Windows client -- same effects as before. >> I am using a mysql database. >> >> What I wonder about: If the problem was on the servers side, e.g. wrong >> pathnames in the database, I would expect problems while restoring the >> files. But all my files and directories are created correctly. Just >> setting the file permissions causes the errors ... > > I'd recommend trying a new backup and restore to test if the problem is > corrected, then if you are having problems with older backups, it is probably > because of mis-matching encoding. I'm not sure how to solve the problem, but > you can probably get the files back by restoring them to a Unix machine, then > moving them to Windows, and correcting any of the filenames that may be > messed up. You may also be able to restore them directly to a temp directory > on Windows, though Windows disallows many more characters in filenames than > Unix does ...
Well, sorry, seems as my english is too bad ... I already did a new full dump and tried a restore. No change. I don't need to restore old backups because I am just installing and testing a new bacula server. While testing we simulated a disaster recovery for that windows 2003 server. -- Regards Christoph ________________________________________________________________________ Christoph Litauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Koblenz, Computing Center, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer Postfach 201602, 56016 Koblenz Fon: +49 261 287-1311, Fax: -100 1311 PGP-Fingerprint: F39C E314 2650 650D 8092 9514 3A56 FBD8 79E3 27B2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
