[Box Backup] Restore Symlinks

[Ben Summers]

Do the tests for 0.10 pass on that box? Something's not quite right  
there.

Ben


On 31 Oct 2006, at 17:52, Andreas Schrafl wrote:

> The problem occurred when restoring to a OpenBSD 4.0 box.
> The server was is a OpenBSD 3.9 machine. As I reported when running  
> the restore on a windows it works.
> I also tried to restore to the server so no OS differences there  
> (the machine that was backuped was 3.7 but that should not be of  
> any interest for a backup application)
>
> I've run ./runtest.pl ALL on the server (where I compiled the  
> files) for the 0.09 and the 0.10 version:
>
> 0.09:
> PASSED
> Block 7c6723c0 freed, but not known. Error? Or allocated in startup  
> static allocation?
> --------
> common: PASSED
> crypto: PASSED
> compress: FAILED: Exception caught: St9bad_alloc
> basicserver: PASSED
> raidfile: PASSED
> backupstore: Block 8bd9b200 freed, but not known. Error? Or  
> allocated in startup static allocation?
> backupstorefix: PASSED
> backupstorepatch: Block 7fa751c0 freed, but not known. Error? Or  
> allocated in startup static allocation?
> backupdiff: Block 7e6f5000 freed, but not known. Error? Or  
> allocated in startup static allocation?
> bbackupd: Block 7c6723c0 freed, but not known. Error? Or allocated  
> in startup static allocation?
>
>
> 0.10:
> PASSED
> --------
> common: PASSED
> crypto: PASSED
> compress: FAILED: Exception caught: St9bad_alloc
> basicserver: PASSED
> raidfile: PASSED
> backupstore: PASSED
> backupstorefix: PASSED
> backupstorepatch: PASSED
> backupdiff: PASSED
> bbackupd: PASSED
>
> So there seem to be some issues. I'm not sure what they mean (not a  
> programmer) but perhaps you all can tell me.
>
> Ben Summers wrote:
>> Andy
>> What platform are you using?
>> Could you run the tests on your client, and see if you get any  
>> failures? Symlink support is explicitly tested with a backup and  
>> restore cycle.
>> Ben
>> On 30 Oct 2006, at 15:04, Andreas Schrafl wrote:
>>> I'm very glad I used BoxBackup. Saved all my data after a raid  
>>> crashed and the restore shreddered the data that was left.
>>>
>>> Now I encountered some problem while restoring concerning symlinks.
>>>
>>> Simply it didn't restore them. I had several symlinks like form  
>>> one directory to an other (same mountpoint). These symlink just  
>>> would not be restored.
>>>
>>> One symlink even crashed the bbackupquery session repeatedly and  
>>> so I had to restore everything surrounding this directory  
>>> separately.
>>> I tried to fix it on the server (checking the account and fixing  
>>> it) but there were no errors so nothing to fix.
>>>
>>> I extracted this directory to a windows machinne and there it  
>>> just skipped these files.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this got fixed lately (still using 0.09 but I could not  
>>> find anything on this topic).
>>>
>>> Thanks for the nice backuptool it really is simple an useful.
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> PS: are there any special things to look out for when updating a  
>>> server from 0.09 to 0.10?
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