Amanda-Users

Re: backup/recover using tar and hard links

2007-10-18 06:46:13
Subject: Re: backup/recover using tar and hard links
From: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Amanda List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:36:54 +0200
On 2007-10-18 04:52, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Obviously, this isn't ideal.  I'm surprised nobody else has been
snagged by this before.  I've been using Amanda on Cyrus mailboxes for
years, with lots of recoveries.  I guess I've just gotten lucky.

Weird indeed.  I've been doing Amanda restores for years already,
and never encountered it.
***Until today*** (and lucky to get it solved quickly, after the
diagnose from the amanda-users).
(This was not on Cyrus mailboxes, but a subtree of a filesystem
on an ftp server using hardlinks to save diskspace.)

Really surprised nobody else has noticed the bug before, indeed.


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