Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
On 2007.10.01. 21:41, Arno Lehmann wrote: ... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... so the files were hardlinked. but, from reading the above, it seems that _none_ of the files was actually restored... reading the manual, i would expect even with hardlinks=no one file to be restored, and only the correct one :) also, the manual could be a bit more clear. it says : In such a case, set hardlinks=no and hard links will not be backed up. Note, using this option will most likely backup more data and on a restore the file system will not be restored identically to the original. i think last sentence refers to 'hardlinks=no' setting, but at first i thought it was referring to '=yes' :) as for what to do - i would expect all hardlinked files to be restored. if not, the system would not be restored as it was. also, what happens if you restore one hardlinked file (and others are not restored) - it has to be unlinked (and should only happen if hardlinks=no is explicitly set) Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason ... -- Rich - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason, On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 1:05pm, jay wrote: I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. Actually, I would strongly suspect that these two files are hard linked together. I have an older RH based system that shows the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ stat /etc/hosts File: /etc/hosts Size: 365 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 Regular File Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 82900 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/ root) Access: Thu Sep 20 11:02:26 2007 Modify: Sun Sep 2 09:48:41 2007 Change: Sun Sep 2 09:48:41 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts File: /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts Size: 365 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 Regular File Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 82900 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: Thu Sep 20 11:02:26 2007 Modify: Sun Sep 2 09:48:41 2007 Change: Sun Sep 2 09:48:41 2007 Notice that the Inode number is identical between these 2 files, which proves they are hard linked together. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks If these files do have different inode numbers, they are different files. If the inode numbers are the same, they are just a single file with multiple names. chris - -- Chris Shelton Indiana University - Financial Management Services - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHAT5dM5TknMKatUwRAtARAJ0dE65geKEITjLMTGwvRvaPlDxruwCgmP+v 1e0bnkKFiGrhXf1+iiQCuvc= =mWee -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
Thanks Chris and Arno, The files are indeed hard linked [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/hosts File: `/etc/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts File: `/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now that we have established that, is there a way to restore that file with Bacula? Or does Bacula not handle hard links? Thanks for the quick responses Jason On 10/1/07, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
Hi, 01.10.2007 20:57,, jay wrote:: Thanks Chris and Arno, The files are indeed hard linked [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/hosts File: `/etc/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts File: `/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now that we have established that, is there a way to restore that file with Bacula? Or does Bacula not handle hard links? But didn't you just lear that Bacula handles hard links? ;-) Admittedly, it might handle them differently... for now, I'd suggest to simple rm /etc/hosts and link it to the restored copy again. Arno Thanks for the quick responses Jason On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
I don't have a problem doing this here. But if I am restoring 20,000 files and some of those are hard linked, which I might or might not know about, then it might be an issue. I think some type of warning would've been really nice in the restore email. Maybe? Jason On 10/1/07, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:57,, jay wrote:: Thanks Chris and Arno, The files are indeed hard linked [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/hosts File: `/etc/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts File: `/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now that we have established that, is there a way to restore that file with Bacula? Or does Bacula not handle hard links? But didn't you just lear that Bacula handles hard links? ;-) Admittedly, it might handle them differently... for now, I'd suggest to simple rm /etc/hosts and link it to the restored copy again. Arno Thanks for the quick responses Jason On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know if you've checked this in the manual, but there is something that refers to behavior when encountering hard links in there. =R jay wrote: I don't have a problem doing this here. But if I am restoring 20,000 files and some of those are hard linked, which I might or might not know about, then it might be an issue. I think some type of warning would've been really nice in the restore email. Maybe? Jason On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:57,, jay wrote:: Thanks Chris and Arno, The files are indeed hard linked [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/hosts File: `/etc/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49: 55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts File: `/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now that we have established that, is there a way to restore that file with Bacula? Or does Bacula not handle hard links? But didn't you just lear that Bacula handles hard links? ;-) Admittedly, it might handle them differently... for now, I'd suggest to simple rm /etc/hosts and link it to the restored copy again. Arno Thanks for the quick responses Jason On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring /etc/hosts on rhel4
Yes, I saw this a few minutes ago. Setting hardlinks = yes in my fileset would fix this. I'm debating what to do about this. It might be that for /etc I don't need to worry about it. Jason On 10/1/07, Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know if you've checked this in the manual, but there is something that refers to behavior when encountering hard links in there. =R jay wrote: I don't have a problem doing this here. But if I am restoring 20,000 files and some of those are hard linked, which I might or might not know about, then it might be an issue. I think some type of warning would've been really nice in the restore email. Maybe? Jason On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:57,, jay wrote:: Thanks Chris and Arno, The files are indeed hard linked [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/hosts File: `/etc/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49: 55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts File: `/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts' Size: 591 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 33011 Links: 2 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2007-10-01 13:52:26.0 -0500 Modify: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 Change: 2007-07-30 09:49:55.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now that we have established that, is there a way to restore that file with Bacula? Or does Bacula not handle hard links? But didn't you just lear that Bacula handles hard links? ;-) Admittedly, it might handle them differently... for now, I'd suggest to simple rm /etc/hosts and link it to the restored copy again. Arno Thanks for the quick responses Jason On 10/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 01.10.2007 20:05,, jay wrote:: Hello, I'm having a weird problem trying to restore /etc/hosts on a RHEL4 box. I'm testing Bacula 2.2.4 on this box, with a MySQL 4 backend. Everything works great so far including my first test restores. However, today I tried to do a restore of /etc/hosts. I enter file selection mode, cd /etc, mark hosts, then do an estimates and it says 2 files are marked for restoration. Ok, thats weird. I'm not sure there, but I see two possible reasons for this: The second file could either be the /etc directory, or... When I finish the restore, no files are restored, except the etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory structure. Now, on the real filesystem, there is a hosts file in that directory, as well as /etc/hosts. But they are not symlinked. ... the two files are not symlinked but hard links to only one set of data. It seems like Bacula is getting confused about which hosts file I actually want restored. It happens if I set the restore client to the same machine, or a different one. I think that, in case these files are hard links, Bacula should restore the one you explicitly selected, i.e. /etc/hosts. What it should do the other hard links is something *I* wouldn't want to decide... Arno Perhaps this is just my inexperience with the software, but can someone offer a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Maybe someone else can confirm this happens with them? Thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.
