[Bacula-users] mystifying restore problem w/ bacula-fd for windows 3.0.1

Apparently I need to do much more comprehensive restore testing, because when I need, it my bacula installation has fallen down around me. This is just the worst of several problems I will be reporting.

First, I ran a restore. The original client is a now-dead XP box, the target client is a new XP box:

The log indicates success.

02-Jul 09:04 packrat-dir JobId 33124: Start Restore Job RestoreFiles.2009-07-02_09.04.49_02
02-Jul 09:04 packrat-dir JobId 33124: Using Device "VS160"
02-Jul 09:05 crow-sd JobId 33124: Ready to read from volume "tape-pool1-0008" on device "VS160" (/dev/nst0).
02-Jul 09:05 crow-sd JobId 33124: Forward spacing Volume "tape-pool1-0008" to file:block 82:2807.
02-Jul 09:17 packrat-dir JobId 33124: Bacula packrat-dir 3.0.1 (30Apr09): 02-Jul-2009 09:17:40
  Build OS:               i686-redhat-linux-gnu redhat 
  JobId:                  33124
  Job:                    RestoreFiles.2009-07-02_09.04.49_02
  Restore Client:         joe2-fd
  Start time:             02-Jul-2009 09:04:51
  End time:               02-Jul-2009 09:17:40
  Files Expected:         1,688
  Files Restored:         1,688
  Bytes Restored:         5,338,764,394
  Rate:                   6942.5 KB/s
  FD Errors:              0
  FD termination status:  OK
  SD termination status:  OK
  Termination:            Restore OK

02-Jul 09:17 packrat-dir JobId 33124: Begin pruning Jobs.
02-Jul 09:17 packrat-dir JobId 33124: No Jobs found to prune.
02-Jul 09:17 packrat-dir JobId 33124: Begin pruning Files.
02-Jul 09:17 packrat-dir JobId 33124: No Files found to prune.

It reported success.  I watched bacula-fd with procmon (from sysinternals.com) because I simply could not believe the results I was getting.  I had specified where=/tmpr2, and I watched it restore the 1,688 files with procmon.  Now look what I see:

(The folder C:\tmpr was from a different restore performed earlier)

C:\>cd \tmpr2

C:\tmpr2>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2

File Not Found

C:\tmpr2>cd
C:\tmpr2

C:\tmpr2>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2

File Not Found

C:\tmpr2>cd \

C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\

07/01/2009 11:45 PM             1,024 .rnd
07/01/2009 05:40 PM                 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
07/01/2009 05:40 PM                 0 CONFIG.SYS
07/01/2009 05:44 PM    <DIR>          Documents and Settings
07/02/2009 08:29 AM    <DIR>          Program Files
07/02/2009 09:18 AM    <DIR>          SysinternalsSuite
07/02/2009 08:18 AM    <DIR>          tmpr
07/02/2009 08:27 AM    <DIR>          WINDOWS
               3 File(s)          1,024 bytes
               5 Dir(s)   6,451,523,584 bytes free

C:\>dir tmpr
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr

07/02/2009 08:18 AM    <DIR>          .
07/02/2009 08:18 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/02/2009 08:18 AM    <DIR>          C
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)   6,451,523,584 bytes free

C:\>dir tmpr2
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2

File Not Found

C:\>cd tmpr2

C:\tmpr2>cd \

C:\>cd tmpxxx
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\>cd \tmpr2\C

C:\tmpr2\C>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2\C

File Not Found

C:\tmpr2\C>cd "Documents and Settings"

C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings

File Not Found

C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings>

...

C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings\Joe>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings\Joe

File Not Found

C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings\Joe>dir "My Documents" | more
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CC21-996C

Directory of C:\tmpr2\C\Documents and Settings\Joe\My Documents

11/16/2007 12:37 PM            47,302 06_clearing_account_rpt.pdf
09/28/2006 11:18 AM            38,400 0927 Seaman (07).xls
04/09/2007 05:20 PM            16,384 10# Satinwrap colors-Spec-Sheet.xls
01/26/2005 12:41 PM            16,896 16 GSM White Coach tissue.xls
07/18/2006 10:46 AM            26,812 17gsm tissue for printing.jpg
08/27/2004 09:57 AM           905,728 2004 stock program G&G r .doc
12/11/2003 05:31 PM            93,696 2004CrossReference.xls
06/25/2004 11:00 AM            80,896 2005 Projections.xls
.
.
.

It looks for all the world like bacula-fd (3.0.1 from the sourceforge site) has silently corrupted this NTFS file system. Can anyone one else suggest what might be happening?

I tried it on a different client with the 2.2.6 client and it appears to have worked normally. Any advice?

The original backup was probably done with a 2.* client

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[Bacula-users] mystifying restore problem w/ bacula-fd for windows 3.0.1 .. invisible directories created