Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 21:11:21
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: <christian.tardif AT servinfo DOT ca>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:08:21 +1000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Tardif [mailto:christian.tardif AT servinfo DOT ca]
> Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:17
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client
> 
> On 08/06/2011 00:57, James Harper wrote:
> 
> 
>       If the files were backed up from C:\dir1\dir2\dir3, and you tell
bacula
>       to restore to C:\tmp\bacula-restores, it will restore to
>       C:\tmp\bacula-restores\c\dir1\dir2\dir3. You can use a
regexwhere to
>       remove the C:\dir1\dir2\dir3 prefix and replace it with a
>       C:\tmp\bacula-restores prefix.
> 
>       That said, the files should have been restored somewhere if
Bacula says
>       it was successful...
> 
> 
> 
> OK, so if I understand correctly (since my files are backed up from a
Linux
> box under /mnt/rsync/blahblah/thisfile.txt, restoring this file to my
Windows
> box should be available under c:\tmp\bacula-
> restores\mnt\rsync\blahblah\thisfile.txt. But since this is a unix
path (so
> these are slashes, not backslashes), would it try to restore to
c:\tmp\bacula-
> restores\mnt/rsync/blahblah/thisfile.txt which wouldn't work, since /
in a
> filename can't be ? Or does the Windows client do the translation
itself?
> 
> I will try right away to create a regex to manulaay translate a / to
\, and
> see how it works, in case this is the problem.
> 
> The file hasn't been restore at all, to answer the question. I've
searched a
> file ending with thisfile.txt (for example), and it just wasn't there
at all.
> 

You should always use /'s under Bacula. Bacula will take care of
substituting it appropriately under Windows.

James

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