Thanks Chris and Arno,
The files are indeed hard linked
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/hosts
File: `/etc/hosts'
Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.000000000 -0500
Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.000000000 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
File: `/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts'
Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.000000000 -0500
Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.000000000 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
Now that we have established that, is there a way to restore that file with
Bacula? Or does Bacula not handle hard links?
Thanks for the quick responses
Jason
On 10/1/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
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