Hi Karsten and others, I have encountered the same issue some time ago, too. Did you ever find a solution/workaround/alternative for it? I would be very interested!
Cheers, Dennis -- two4.IT http://www.two4.it -- On Wednesday 6 January 2010 21:31 Karsten Schulze wrote: > I believe that bacula does not work anymore with curlftpfs (version 0.9.2). > I have found several reports which describe a similar behavior. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curlftpfs/+bug/367091 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs/forums/forum/542750/topic/3295831 > > Finally I "found" the release notes of curlftpfs 0.9.2: > http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=602461 > "Be aware that some applications might not be able to "save" files on > curlftpfs from 0.9.2 on, because we don't support open(read+write) or > open(write) and seek anymore." > > I have written a small program to test this functionality. You can use > it to verify your environment. > #include <stdio.h> > #include <string.h> > > int main(void) { > //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/test","w+b"); > //works fine (without curlftpfs) > //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","a+b"); > //create flags: 0x442 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000 > //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported > //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","a+"); > //create flags: 0x442 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000 > //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported > //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","w+"); > //create flags: 0x242 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000 > //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported > FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","w+b"); > //create flags: 0x242 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000 > //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported > > fprintf(stdout, "I try to open file\n"); > if(fp==NULL) > { > fprintf(stdout,"Error: can't open file.\n"); > return 1; > } > else { > char str[40]; > int i; > > strcpy(str,"somecharacters"); > printf("File opened successfully. Writing....\n\n"); > for (i=0;i<8;i++) { > fputc(str[i],fp); > } > } > fclose(fp); > return 0; > } > > I would recommend that the documentation of bacula should mention this > incompatibility. > Using a ftp service you have to find an alternative (which one?) > > Br, Karsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
