Yes, I saw this a few minutes ago. Setting hardlinks = yes in my fileset
would fix this. I'm debating what to do about this. It might be that for
/etc I don't need to worry about it.
Jason
On 10/1/07, Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I don't know if you've checked this in the manual, but there is
> something that refers to behavior when encountering hard links in there.
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> jay wrote:
> > 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]
> > <mailto:[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]>
> > > <mailto: [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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