Hi, I am still very interested in this topic. Is anyone using Bacula with FTP as storage backend? How do you handle this situation?
Thanks for your help! Cheers, Dennis -- two4.IT http://www.two4.it -- Am Samstag 13 Februar 2010 21:41:04 schrieb Dennis Petschull: > 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/32958 > >31 > > > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
