On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:56, Russell Howe wrote: > Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 12:44: > > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:15 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: > >> Choose the 'mod' option when running a restore job and alter the client. > >> That one's gotta be in the manual, surely? :) > > > > thanks, did not read what that one's for. > > > > Tried it, but on my debian system it says my file daemon won't support > > win32 streams. On remote windows systems I get > > Aha, another gem hidden in the documentation. > > Unless you specify that Windows backups are written in 'portable' > format, the Windows backup API is used which writes data in its own > 'special' (for 'special' read 'proprietary'). Bacula doesn't (yet, but > it's on the todo) parse this data, just storing it and returning it to > the Windows backup API for decoding.
Parsing this data *is* implemented in 1.39.18. > > This effectively means that you need to restore to a Windows machine, or > you need to perform a backup of your ex-machine with the portable option > set. See the docs for more information: > > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION000396000000000000000 > > I doubt you'd be able to run the win32 FD under wine as a way around > this, but the wine folks do implement all sorts of esoteric parts of the > Windows API so anything is possible, I guess.. > > -- > Russell Howe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
