I doubt that it's a corrupted file system, it's merely hidden directories. 
  If you go into windows explorer and change the settings so it shows you 
Hidden, System, Operating System, etc files you should now be able to see 
those dirs from windows explorer.  I don't think that will affect the 
command prompt behavior that you've found but that behavior is not unusual 
for when  directories are marked System or Hidden.

   Bob


  

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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