Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on Exchange plugin

2011-05-26 21:16:09
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on Exchange plugin
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: "Graham Keeling" <graham AT equiinet DOT com>, <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:12:41 +1000
> 
> c) Be very very careful with this. I believe that the plugin doesn't
work
> properly. Specifically, it will restore from:
>     * A full backup
>     * A full backup, plus one incremental.
> But then it may not restore from:
>     * A full backup, plus two incrementals.
> And be less and less likely to work for each incremental that you add.
> And without attempting to restore, it will seem as if it is working.
> 
> See bacula bug number 0001647, which has the status "closed" with the
> resolution "won't fix":
> http://marc.info/?l=bacula-bugs&m=129690630228142&w=2
> 
> You might be OK if you always did Full backups, but that defeats the
point.
> 

I spent some time recently trying to fix this as I was able to reproduce
it. If you are careful it is possible to do the restore but you need to
know what you are doing.

Unfortunately I haven't had time to work on it since then :(

James

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