Re: [Bacula-users] Restore FIFO as a regular file

Hello,

2012/12/9 styopa <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>

Hi everyone.

There is a problem in Bacula that if you read data from FIFO (aka named pipes), you have to restore to named pipes as well. But according to the manual there must be a program reading from these pipes before the FD will even open them. And since there is no way to figure out the future pipe filenames, we got a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Some people solve it by hardcoding the filename in a restore Bash script, but I think this is lame. Suppose you have several huge databases, and you want to restore just one of them.

If I want to use pipes/fifo to backup from external application I use a bpipe-fd plugin which handles external application execution and backup data stream dispatching for both backup and restore process.

It has nothing with restoring a data to named pipes, but solves a chicken-and-egg problem mentioned above.

best regards

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Radosław Korzeniewski
radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net

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