Ram Krishnamurthy wrote:
Hi Jehan
What do you mean by
> Since then, I fsck.ext3 -f the /var partition which caused me the
> problems, it works fine now (last 3 days) ,
What works fine? The restore? Are you not seeing the file corruption
anymore?
Yes the restore worked fine, but maybe it's not due to the fact that I
run fsck, but only because since those last 3 days, nobody was
manipulating the files while they were dumped !?
Someone else on this list (Paul Bijnens) told me that it is most
certainly due to that fact that I use dump to backup that partition ,
and if you read that :
http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
it could be a good explanation . so do you confirm that I should move to :
define dumptype root-tar {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
Anyway, if you have other suggestion , I'll appreciate, because today my
only solution is to move that backup from dump to tar . But will this
solve definitly my problem, will tar create other ones ? which (tar/dump
or soething else) is best finally ?
Thanks.
Thanks
tk
Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
Hello
I've been saving partitions with amanda (dumps) for weeks now ...
unfortunaltly while needing to restore a file I got garbage :-(
For exemple, here's what I expected from the file I needed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/www/html/server/settings/siteaccess/site_unite_server_en]
$ cat site.ini.append.php
<?php /* #?ini charset="iso-8859-1"?
[DatabaseSettings]
DatabaseImplementation=ezpostgresql
etc ...
And here's what I got from an amrecover (same with amrestore !)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/data1/restore-server/21-11-2005/www/html/server/settings/siteaccess/site_unite_server_en]
$ cat site.ini.append.php
$var3, 'templateValue' ) )
$var3 = $var3->templateValue();
$var2 = ( ( $var3 ) == ( 'enabled' ) );
unset( $var3 );
while ( is_object( $var2 ) and method_exists( $var2, 'templateValue' ) )
$var2 = $var2->templateValue();
unset( $var3 );
etc ....
You can see that it's completly different ! source codes have
replaces the initial php configuration code . It's as if one file was
replaced with an other one, perhaps inodes were mismatched or
something ...?
Is this problem already occured to someone on this list ?
Is amanda in cause , dump part, restore part ? , or it comes from
outsite amanda tools , from the system (here redhat 4 running
amanda-2.4.4p3-1) ?
I'am really confused about that problem, and cannot be confident on
my backups as long as I am not sure of what was the problem.
Since then, I fsck.ext3 -f the /var partition which caused me the
problems, it works fine now (last 3 days) , but I'am afraid of
beeing once again confronted to that problem.
Thanks of any help / sugestions .