Hello Bacula List. I've read many articles on this list and found
solutions to virtually every issue I've had with Bacula here. I'm
hoping one of the really technical folks might be able to assist with a
problem I've now got.
I'm using Bacula 2.2.8 on Fedora 8 for the director. The client and
storage daemons are on a remote Mac OSX 10.4 machine, also Bacula
2.2.8. All backups are compressed and encrypted.
The problem:
A USB hard drive on the Mac failed. We had a complete set of backups
and restored to a replacement disk when it arrived. Fill in the
standard story here about asking the user to confirm that the backup
worked successfully and receiving confirmation that the files were
restored.
6 weeks later, the user calls in a panic because he cannot find any of
his files on the new drive. Fill in standard story where user admits
he never had time to actually check that the files were there following the restore.
I can go in to terminal on the Mac and see that there are files on the
disk. Bringing up information for the disk shows that there is data
(355 MB in this case) stored in the directory. If I copy the restored
directory to another disk drive, Info shows 355MB in the new location.
However, no files are displayed in Finder. Directories are all there,
but not a single file.
I think the key mistake was that the original USB drive was formatted
FAT32, and the new disk was HFS+ (definitely my error). When the restore was done I suspect
that the format change confused the Mac, and I now have FAT32 formatted
files on an HFS+ formatted disk.
Because of the time that it took to discover the problem, the original
backup tapes have now been recycled. The backups that I do have are of
the restored data on the HFS+ disk. I have attempted to restore this
data to a new FAT32 disk. I get he same result: Files can be
displayed in terminal with ls, but they do not show up in Finder.
I have run disk verify and repair from the disk utilities.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance for any assistance.
