Today I am questioning the integrity of a backup archive created for a
full backup. We created the backup with the intention of an easy
restore (though we did have other means to recover data). However,
when we proceeded to run the restore, numerous archive errors were
found. First we had checksum errors, then the restore failed. The only
way to recover what was left was to use bextract with the -p argument.

The backup was made from a Windows 2003 SBS to a local usb drive. The
windows machine was running the FD and SD version 2.4 and the director
was running 2.2.7. Though I am willing to bet that this was just a
freak accident caused by unusual circumstances (and perhaps a faulty
usb drive.)

We only had one problem doing the restore and that was bextract
inability to strip windows paths from backups. Bextract should feature
all the regex and recovery options that are available via bacula.

My question is, is there a way to check the integrity of bacula
archives? I have made full backups to this usb drive before and I am
unsure if this was an isolated incident.

Sincerely,
-Michael
-- 
Michael Short
Securenets
(901) 233-9926

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