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:
[root@server /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 !)
[root@server
/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) ?
This is also a typical effect of using dump on a busy filesystem.
Or, even worse, using dump on a corrupted filesystem...
That's one of the reasons I use gnutar instead of dump.
It could also be a tapedrive that is out of warranty of course.
Or Harry Potter training new magic.
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 .
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