Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-07 01:59:19
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows
From: Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au>
To: Foo <bfoo33 AT yahoo.co DOT uk>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:54:19 +0800
Foo wrote:

> The important bit is, how do you handle the junction point? If Bacula  
> doesn't understand it, like now, you can either back it up explicitly,  
> which is redundant and quite possibly breaks any updates for apps that  
> expect a junction point instead of a real directory (or update files in  
> one location expecting the other to be in sync), or you can ignore it and  
> probably break whatever is using it immediately after a restore, unless  
> you know why something breaks and how to fix it.

What it means is that, at present, Bacula cannot be used to reliably 
back up whole Windows systems for versions of Windows that use junction 
points. Some form of post-restore repair and recovery will be required.

--
Craig Ringer

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