On Wednesday 06 June 2007 10:21, Andre Noll wrote: > On 21:38, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Would bacula also have issues with deleted files. Say a file existed > > > during a full backup, then it was deleted. Then an incremental backup > > > occurred. Then a restore was done. Would the file be restored, even if > > > though the restore routine selected the incremental job?? > > > > If you do a full restore as is done by the restore command in Bat, yes the > > file would be restored. > > Six month ago we've had a total crash (ZFS) and had to restore 4T of > data from tapes. According to Murphy, our last full backup was three > months old and we thus had about 90 incremental backups. > > Although the restore worked flawlessly (thanks a lot for providing > such a great piece of software), it was a major PITA for everyone to > clean up the restored data because naturally lots of files had been > removed during the previous three month. Even more annoying were all > the directories that had been renamed since the full backup because > these appeared twice in the restored tree. > > So I think it would be _really_ nice to store information about > deleted files and directories in the database which would make it > possible to get rid of all deleted files and directories automatically > during restore. > > The dar backup tool for example has this feature. Are there any > plans to include such a feature also in bacula?
Yes, but no one is currently working on it. There have been a number of emails on this subject on the bacula-users' list recently. Regards, Kern > > Thanks > Andre > -- > The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
