On Friday 11 September 2009 01:11:27 pm Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> When I restored the file on a Linux host I first noticed the file size was
> off by a few bytes and  I'm unable to extract it.

Judy & Douglas:  Thanks for the comments and for suggesting the restore back 
to a Windows machine.   I just did that and indeed, the restored file is 100% 
identical to the original !  Now I'm sure the backup on tape is perfectly 
fine.  

As this was just a special situation (we usually don't mix backup/restores of 
different policy types) I won't investigate further as to why it doesn't work 
from widnows-to-linux.  At least now I know that other people have 
experienced the same behaviour.  Thanks.

Justin:  Thanks to you too.  Our master server is also the media server.  I 
tried, like you mentioned, to copy the file from Windows to Linux using ftp.  
I had to use ncftp as the stock ftp client can't handle files bigger  than 
2GB.  The transfer went perfect (the checksum was identical as original).  I 
guess I'll need to investigate further within NBU for this if I ever need 
again to do the windows-to-linux thing.  Thanks!

All the best,
Jorge


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