I don't have a problem doing this here. But if I am restoring 20,000 files
and some of those are hard linked, which I might or might not know about,
then it might be an issue. I think some type of warning would've been
really nice in the restore email. Maybe?
Jason
On 10/1/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 01.10.2007 20:57,, jay wrote::
> > 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?
>
> But didn't you just lear that Bacula handles hard links? ;-)
>
> Admittedly, it might handle them differently... for now, I'd suggest
> to simple rm /etc/hosts and link it to the restored copy again.
>
> Arno
>
> > Thanks for the quick responses
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> > On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[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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