Hi,

21.06.2008 13:42, Javier Gomez wrote:
> 
>     I am in the process of performing backups (mostly Windows servers).  
> Then using bextract to extract those backups to the "bacula server" 
> which is a Fedora server.  Then pulling individual files off of the 
> extracted folder.

I won't ask why you're doing this...

>  The problem is that in order to use bextract on a 
> unix server for a backup of a windows server, it looks like you need to 
> use the "portable=yes" option.

Yes.

>  This works perfectly for that 
> purpose...but by using this option we no longer retain the file level 
> Windows permissions to be used in a regular Bacula restore which is 
> really needed.  So in order to get a clean backup with Windows 
> permissions, I need to run two backups of each server.  One would have 
> the portable=no and the other with the portable=yes.  Obviously I wanted 
> to avoid backing up each server twice everyday.  Does anyone know of any 
> other option that could help me to avoid the double backup process?  
> Seems like a parameter on the "bextract" command which could apply the 
> portable=yes option on the fly.

As the portable flag in the file set causes Bacula to store a 
different set of data - some windows' generated stream of data 
containing the file itself plus its metadata - that's not so easy. 
Basically, bextract would have to parse the data to find the actual 
file contents.

As far as I know, bextract can't do this in the released version.

But let me quote from the 2.5 technotes:

     1         Technical notes on version 2.5
     2
     3
     4 New features:
     5 Accurate files
     6 TLS authentication
     7 bextract Win32 data

So, in the development version, this seems to be implemented. You 
might decide to become a beta tester :-)

Arno


>  Thoughts?
> 
> 
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