Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: > Hello, > > I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. > I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. > Everything works great so far including my first test restores. > However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file > selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 > files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird.
I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... > When I finish the > restore, no files are restored, except the > etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on > the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as > /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. > It seems like Bacula is > getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It > happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different > one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno > > Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone > offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else > can confirm this happens with them? Thanks > > Jason > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
